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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
The best defense against democracy is to distract people.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
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.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
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.
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.
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.
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.
