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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
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.
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
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.
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
