More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
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.
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.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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.
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
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.
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
