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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.
Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable - if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it.
If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.
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.
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.
