諾姆·喬姆斯基
語(yǔ)言學(xué)與認(rèn)知科學(xué)革命者
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
讓人們保持被動(dòng)和順從的聰明方法是嚴(yán)格限制可接受意見(jiàn)的范圍，但在該范圍內(nèi)允許非?；钴S的辯論。
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.
要么你重復(fù)每個(gè)人都在說(shuō)的相同傳統(tǒng)教條，要么你說(shuō)一些真實(shí)的東西，而它會(huì)聽(tīng)起來(lái)像是來(lái)自海王星。
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
宣傳之于民主，正如棍棒之于極權(quán)國(guó)家。
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
你越是能增加對(duì)毒品和犯罪、福利母親、移民和外星人的恐懼，你就越能控制所有人。
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
樂(lè)觀是一種創(chuàng)造更美好未來(lái)的策略。因?yàn)槌悄阆嘈盼磥?lái)會(huì)更好，否則你不太可能站出來(lái)為創(chuàng)造這樣的未來(lái)承擔(dān)責(zé)任。
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
普通大眾不知道正在發(fā)生什么，甚至不知道他們不知道。
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
如果我們不相信我們所鄙視的人的言論自由，那么我們根本就不相信言論自由。
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
無(wú)色的綠色念頭憤怒地睡覺(jué)。
The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
互聯(lián)網(wǎng)可能是邁向教育、組織和參與一個(gè)有意義的社會(huì)的非常積極的一步。
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
語(yǔ)言是一種自由創(chuàng)造的過(guò)程；其法則和原則是固定的，但生成原則的使用方式是自由且無(wú)限多樣的。