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Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

― Noam Chomsky

If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.

― Noam Chomsky

Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.

― Noam Chomsky

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.

― Noam Chomsky

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

― Noam Chomsky

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

― Noam Chomsky

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.

― Noam Chomsky

FreedomOfSpeech

The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.

― Noam Chomsky

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.

― Noam Chomsky

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

― Noam Chomsky

It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.

― Noam Chomsky

You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

― Noam Chomsky

If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal.

― Noam Chomsky

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

― 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.

― Noam Chomsky

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