More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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.
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.
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
