Noam Chomsky Quotes About Free Speech

• If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Relationship, Freedom

  Interview with John Pilger on BBC's "The Late Show", November 25, 1992.

• Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.

  Noam Chomsky

  Views, Freedom Of Speech, Favors

  "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media". Documentary, Biography, War, www.imdb.com. 1992.

• Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

  Noam Chomsky

  Giving, Speech, Our Society

  "Chomsky on McCutcheon: ‘Let’s Forget Any Pretense of Being a Democratic Society’" by Abel Collins, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2014.

• Evaluating countries is senseless and I would never put things in those terms, but that some of America's advances, particularly in the area of free speech, that have been achieved by centuries of popular struggle, are to be admired.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Struggle, America

  "Question time" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2003.

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