More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.
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.
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.
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.
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
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 indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
