Noam Chomsky Quotes About Anarchy

• Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, Doctrine, Neptune

• The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mother, People, Drug

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire...

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Politics, Anarchy

  "Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1985.

• Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Political, Democracy

  "On Propaganda". WBAI Interview, chomsky.info. January 1992.

• That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

  Noam Chomsky

  Burden Of Proof, Essence, Anarchy

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.775, AK Press

• All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Media, People

• Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

  Noam Chomsky

  New York, Order, Miracle

  Noam Chomsky (1997). “World Orders, Old and New”, p.128, Pluto Press

• If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, Comforting, Anarchy

  Noam Chomsky (2001). “9-11 [neuf-onze]”, p.68, Seven Stories Press

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