6) Noam Chomsky
“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all”
Noam Chomsky has been described as the father of modern linguistics and has to be one of the most well read people on the planet. Chomsky has been a highly influential academic figure throughout his career, and was cited within the field of Arts and Humanities more often than any other living scholar between 1980 and 1992. He knows his onions. Here’s another because he’s awesome:
“If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged”
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