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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.
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 - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
