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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
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.
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.
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
