Noam Chomsky Quotes

The hard left labels anyone who challenges it 'divisive.' The leftists live in a world where everyone is free to look different but must think the same. I don't play their game. I threaten them and their narrative. That's why they slap the 'divisive' label and attempt to dismiss me. It's not going to work - not on me.

Back then, you seemed like a crazy person when you were trying to push the boundaries of network TV. People looked at you, and they were offended by the fact that you didn't follow the generic rules of what was expected on network TV.

I'm not really the quiet type, although some people think I am. But I'm the rebel type in the sense that I don't think I'm like everyone else. I try to be an individual.

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

Stay true to what you believe in and don't let people try to change that direction. Don't take no for an answer.

I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware. So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself. And so anything from the travel stories I tell, that's what I'm trying to get across.

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.

The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

The system you're brought up under tries to make you like the people that succeeded in that system.

I never wanted to accept that. And so I have always fought against that in some way, shape or form and had - I've had people who have supported trying to get me in for things that were beyond the character description.

The media is putting a lot of emphasis on the few people that are destroying, while it won't report on the silent majority of people who are constructing, building and trying to find their way.

The majority of people do not accept my choices.

If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?

The ’60s was the last time when large groups of people in the West searched for alternative modes of being. In a society like India’s, which is still not fully modern or totally organized, and has a great deal of tolerance for otherness in general, they find the cultural license to try other things, to be whatever they want to be.

People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.

Some people are very dictatorial and it's not a good feeling, and it kind of inhibits you, because you feel like you have more to offer than what they're trying to squeeze you into, some kind of box or something like that.

Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up.

The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

The problem is, most people don't like to hear suggestions that directly confront or run counter to their most sacred beliefs.

It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.

Hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different. It's okay to stand out for whatever reason. Some people are just born that way and instead of trying to tear them down, learn something new. Be curious and open because maybe that's a pathway out for you, too.

I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

Here's why I like geek culture: People like what they like because they like it. They're not trying to fit into any mainstream likes or dislikes.