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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.
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.
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.
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
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.
