8/13/2019 Noam Chomsky Quotes
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We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for
good ideas.(Kita tidak seharusnya mencari pahlawan, tetapi kita
seharusnya mencari pikiran-pikiran yangbaik.(!oam "homsky
#$f we don't belie%e in freedom of e&pression for people we
despise, we don't belie%e in it at all.#
(ika kita tidak percaya pada kebebasan berekspresi bagi
orang-orang yang kita anggaprendah, maka kita tidak percaya akan
kebebasan sama sekali.(!oam "homsky
ptimism is a strategy for making a better future. )ecause unless
you belie%e that the futurecan be better, you are unlikely to step
up and take responsibility for making it so.(ptimisme adalah
strategi untuk membuat masa depan yang lebih baik. Karena *ikalau
kamutidak percaya bahwa masa depan bisa lebih baik, maka anda tidak
mungkin untuk ma*u danmengambil tanggung *awab untuk membuatnya
lebih baik.(!oam "homsky
$t is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and
e&pose lies.(!oam "homsky
+ither you repeat the same con%entional doctrines e%erybody is
saying, or else you saysomething true, and it will sound like it's
from !eptune.(!oam "homsky
+ducation is a system of imposed ignorance.(!oam "homsky,
anufacturing "onsent he /olitical +conomy of the ass edia
$t's not radical $slam that worries the 01. $t's
independence(!oam "homsky
he more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers,
immigrants and aliens, themore you control all of the people.(!oam
"homsky
hat's the whole point of good propaganda. 2ou want to create a
slogan that nobody's going tobe against, and e%erybody's going to
be for. !obody knows what it means, because it doesn'tmean
anything.(!oam "homsky
$f you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there
will be no hope. $f you assumethat there is an instinct for
freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there
is a
possibility that you can contribute to making a better
world.(!oam "homsky
!eoliberal democracy. $nstead of citi3ens, it produces
consumers. $nstead of communities, itproduces shopping malls. he
net result is an atomi3ed society of disengaged indi%iduals whofeel
demorali3ed and socially powerless.$n sum, neoliberalism is the
immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy,not
*ust in the 0nited 1tates but across the planet, and will be for
the foreseeable future.(!oam "homsky
8/13/2019 Noam Chomsky Quotes
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$n this possibly terminal phase of human e&istence,
democracy and freedom are more than *ustideals to be %alued - they
may be essential to sur%i%al.(!oam "homsky
#/ropaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a
totalitarian state.
(!oam "homsky, edia "ontrol he 1pectacular 4chie%ements of
/ropaganda
ptimism is a strategy for making a better future. )ecause unless
you belie%e that the futurecan be better, it5s unlikely you will
step up and take responsibility for making it so. $f you assumethat
there5s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. $f you
assume that there is aninstinct for freedom, there are
opportunities to change things, there5s a chance you maycontribute
to making a better world. he choice is yours.(!oam "homsky
$f it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.(!oam
"homsky
!o honest *ournalist should be willing to describe himself or
herseif as 'embedded.' o say, '$'man embedded *ournalist' is to
say, '$'m a go%ernment /ropagandist.(!oam "homsky, $mperial
4mbitions "on%ersations on the /ost-6788 World
he intellectual tradition is one of ser%ility to power, and if $
didn't betray it $'d be ashamed ofmyself.(!oam "homsky
/eace is preferable to war. )ut it5s not an absolute %alue, and
so we always ask, What kind of
peace9(!oam "homsky
:oebbels was in fa%or of free speech for %iews he liked. 1o was
1talin. $f you5re really in fa%orof free speech, then you5re in
fa%or of freedom of speech for precisely the %iews you
despise.therwise, you5re not in fa%or of free speech.(!oam
"homsky
$f anybody thinks they should listen to me because $'m a
professor at $, that's nonsense. 2oushould decide whether something
makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the nameof the
person who says it.(!oam "homsky
;isco%ery is the ability to be pu33led by simple things.#(!oam
"homsky
/eople who call themsel%es supporters of $srael are actually
supporters of its moraldegeneration and ultimate destruction.(!oam
"homsky
