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

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Noam Chomsky

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

Noam Chomsky

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.

Noam Chomsky

The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it's hardly a traditional political party anymore.

Noam Chomsky

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Noam Chomsky

Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact.

Noam Chomsky

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

Noam Chomsky

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

Noam Chomsky

One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.

Noam Chomsky

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

Noam Chomsky

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

Noam Chomsky