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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.
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 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.
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 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.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
