Noam Chomsky Quotes
Democracy is a value in itself. It doesn't have to be defended [justified] any more than freedom has to be defended.
Noam Chomsky, Linguist & Political Writer, Interview, Bill Moyers World of Ideas, PBS, November 4, 1988
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The country had just returned to civilian rule after years of murder and government atrocities under a military junta.
The 3rd sentence is one of his greatest quotes. He delivered this speech towards the end of the 1st year of President Donald Trump's Administration. Althought he never mentioned Trump by name, this speech was a rare major criticism of a sitting president by a former president. This was also one of the few speeches Bush gave after leaving office. On the same day, former President Barak Obama also gave a major speech and also castigated President Trump although neither of the ex-presidents knew that the other was about to deliver their criticism of Trump. It was one of the very unusal occurances in American history.
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.
