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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
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 more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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.
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 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.
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
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.
