More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
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.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
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.
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
