Tag: Noam Chomsky

Guest Post by Margaret Anna Alice

“If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don’t like. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re in favor of freedom of speech, that means you’re in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of freedom of speech.”
—Noam Chomsky, interview included in Manufacturing Consent

I know what you’re thinking.

Noam Chomsky seems an unlikely companion for a disquisition in defense of civil liberties.

I’m not talking about the authoritarian, enemy-defining, menticided Chomsky who in 2021 advocated for the isolation, stigmatization, and deprivation of those who exercise their right to refuse an experimental injection.

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“If you want irresponsible politicians to spend less, you must give them less to spend.”

Irwin Schiff

“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.”

Ronald Reagan

“Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”

Ambrose Bierce

“If we don’t believe in free expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”

Noam Chomsky

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“The naive doesn’t see the danger until it is at his throat.”

Noam Chomsky

How did Russia and the West slip back into what seems like the Cold war all over again? And how is this standoff affecting Americans? Sophie Shevardnadze speaks to American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political commentator and activist – Professor Noam Chomsky.

WATCH FULL EPISDOE on Friday (Nov 07th).