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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.
The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable - if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it.
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.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
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.
It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
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.
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.
