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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
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.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
The best defense against democracy is to distract people.
The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
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.
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.
