More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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.
Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
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.
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
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.
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
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.
