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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.
If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.
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.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.
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.
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.
