More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
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.
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.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
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.
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
