More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
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.
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.
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.
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.
