More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
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.
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.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
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.
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.
