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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
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.
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.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
