More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
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.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
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.
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
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.
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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.
