“The sign of a truly totalitarian culture is that important truths simply lack cognitive meaning and are interpretable only at the level of ‘Fuck You’, so they can then elicit a perfectly predictable torrent of abuse in response.” — Noam Chomsky, On Vaclav Havel Speech, letter to Alexander Cockburn (1990-03-01)
“One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression.” — Noam Chomsky, American Power and the New Mandarins
“If we don’t believe in free expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” — Noam Chomsky, Interview by John Pilger on BBC’s The Late Show (25 November 1992)
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