More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
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.
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.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.
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.
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.
