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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
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.
It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
