More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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 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.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.
Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.
