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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
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 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.
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.
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.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
