"Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends."

“Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.”

“Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.”

“The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.”

Source : "On Fake News and Other Societal Woes". Interview with Irene, chomsky.info. December 7, 2005.

“Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.”

“Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.”

“Wherever you find marital failure, you will find a breakdown in real communication. Wherever you find marital success, you will find a good communication system.”

“Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.”

“Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.”