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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.
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 best defense against democracy is to distract people.
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 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.
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
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.
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.
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.
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
