Noam Chomsky Quotes
"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.""To some degree, it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.""Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.""As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.""Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. ""How it is we have so much information, but know so little?""Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.""It's not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.""The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.""The Internet is an elite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.""Democracy in any meaningful sense of the term doesn't mean that citizens have the right to choose between two rich people who represent basically the same interests. ""The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person using them.""You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.""People not only don't know what's happening to them, they don't even know that they don't know.""Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.""For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.""If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.""Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.""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.""Education is a system of imposed ignorance."
