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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
The best defense against democracy is to distract people.
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.
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
