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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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 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.
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.
If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
The best defense against democracy is to distract people.
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.
It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
