More quotes by Noam Chomsky

"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."
"The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years."
"Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections."
"We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas."
"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."