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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.
That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
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 - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
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.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.
