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Certainly! Here are a few famous quotes by Noam Chomsky:
1. ”If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.”
2. ”The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”
3. ”Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”
4. ”The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.”
5. ”Education is a system of imposed ignorance.”
6. ”If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that 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.”
7. ”Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
8. ”The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.”
9. ”Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.”
10. ”The responsibility of intellectuals is to speak the truth and expose lies.”
These quotes highlight Chomsky’s perspectives on freedom of expression, media manipulation, social change, education, and the role of intellectuals in society.