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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
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.
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 more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
