Language and freedom
True freedom requires not just absence of chains, but the ability to use your mind freely
Noam Chomsky
American linguist, philosopher and critic of international politics, one of the most influential intellectuals of our time
All moments: Noam Chomsky
- Questions About Our Future — Noam Chomsky
The future is what we make of it. We are not victims of history; we are its authors.
- Economics and Justice — Noam Chomsky
Free market ideology is a religion, not a science. Markets are efficient only under very specific conditions that rarely exist.
- Education For Whom and For What — Noam Chomsky
The purpose of education should be to free people from control, not to make them more controllable.
- Challenging the System — Noam Chomsky
The powerful maintain their power by convincing us that change is impossible. But history shows it's not.
- How the Elite Control Society — Noam Chomsky
Manufacturing consent is the way modern democracies function - through the manipulation of belief, not through force.
- The Intellectual's Responsibility — Noam Chomsky
The role of an intellectual is to speak uncomfortable truths to power, even when it's unpopular.
- Language as a Window to the Mind — Noam Chomsky
Language is a uniquely human possession, deeply related to our capacity for abstract thought.
- The nature of man — Noam Chomsky
Human nature is revealed through language. Language reflects the structure of our mind
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