Noam Chomsky

Date of Birth:

07-Nov-1928

Nationality:

United States

Profession:

Activist

Noam Chomsky was a professor who continues to receive a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1955, he has been a professor at MIT and has produced fundamental, controversial theories on people's language skills. Chomsky has been widely published, both on topics in his field and on issues of opposition to U.S. foreign policy. Noam Chomsky was a brilliant child, and his intelligence and intelligence were greatly impressed by his early experiences. His mother, Elsie, was active in the politics of the 1930s. His father, William, who was a Russian Jewish immigrant as his mother, was a respected Hebrew professor at Gratz College, a teacher training center. At 10 years old, while attending a thriving school that emphasized student independence, Chomsky wrote an editorial for the rise of European pride after the Spanish World War in his school newspaper. Just after World War II, Chomsky began his studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1955, academics instructors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) invited Chomsky to participate on their lists. During his career as a professor, Chomsky introduced a language change program in the field of linguistics. Shifting between the world of science and popular culture, Chomsky has also gained a reputation for his often political interpretations, which he describes as a "libertarian socialist," some of which have been seen as controversial and open to debate. Chomsky is a respected and highly sought-after thinker who continues to write new books and contributes to various types of journals and is always active in academic circles. Throughout his career, Chomsky has amassed a wealth of academic and humanitarian awards, including a Special Science Award from the American Psychological Association, the Kyoto Award for Basic Science and the Sydney Peace Prize.

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“Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.”

“If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.”

“The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.”

“The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.”

“We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice.”

“The beauty of our system is that it isolates everybody. Each person is sitting alone in front of the tube, you know. It's very hard to have ideas or thoughts under those circumstances. You can't fight the world alone.”