More Quotes by 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.
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 press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.
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.
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 more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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.
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.
The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.
