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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not to protect the country from enemies.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.
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.
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
