Noam Chomsky Quotes
A person who issues that charge that someone adheres to the principle "do as I say, not as I do" has three options: produce an example; withdraw the charge; take the coward's way out and slink away silently.
Chomsky, Noam, and Sam Harris. "The Limits of Dialogue." SamHarris.org, 1 May 2015.
In the 2012 Presidential campaign, Mitt Romney castigated President Obama for cutting $730 billion from the very popular Medicare program in his budget. The cut did not reduce any benefits to Medicare recipients as the money was saved by ending a subsidy that had been paid to private insurance. However, in Romney’s proposed and published budget, he would cut Medicare by the same $730 but the cuts would come from services as the insurance companies would still get their subsidies.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
