More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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.
It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.
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.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.
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.
