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More Quotes by Noam Chomsky
Governments will use whatever technology is available to combat their primary enemy - their own population.
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 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.
He who controls the media controls the minds of the public.
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.
It takes one minute to tell a lie, and an hour to refute it.
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.
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 best defense against democracy is to distract people.
