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“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”

Noam Chomsky · Freedom

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Noam Chomsky

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

Fear

Noam Chomsky

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

Power

Noam Chomsky

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

History

Noam Chomsky

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

Amazing