More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
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.
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 you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
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.
