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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
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.
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.
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.
The best defense against democracy is to distract people.
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
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.
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
