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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
Neoliberal democracy. Instead of citizens, it produces consumers. Instead of communities, it produces shopping malls. The net result is an atomized society of disengaged individuals who feel demoralized and socially powerless. In sum, neoliberalism is the immediate and foremost enemy of genuine participatory democracy, not just in the United States but across the planet, and will be for the foreseeable future.
The best defense against democracy is to distract people.
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 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.
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.
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.
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.
