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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.
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 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 indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
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.
It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
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.
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
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.
