More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
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.
If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.
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.
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.
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.
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
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 best defense against democracy is to distract people.
