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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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 should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.
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.
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.
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.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
