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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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 world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
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.
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.
It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
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.
