Noam Chomsky

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#marketing #media-of-the-united-states #politician #politics-of-the-united-states #design

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#journalism #propaganda #war #journalist

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#learning #work #freedom

If you abandon the political arena, somebody is going to be there. Corporations aren't going to go home and join the PTA. They are going to run things. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#politics #home

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#god #religion #religion

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#ends #fear #hate #how #lies

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#aware #did #everything #growing #growing up

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#environmental #knowingly #nuclear #nuclear war #our

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#anywhere #executive #executive power #i #i am

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

— Noam Chomsky

#comforting #illusion #live #world