Chomsky

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    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. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
    —Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

    The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
    —Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)

    Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
    —Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)