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“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.”

—Noam Chomsky

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow a very lively debate within that spectrum -- even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people a sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of debate. ”

—Noam Chomsky 

“I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.” ”

—Noam Chomsky

“The idea is "We smashed up the world and stole everything from it- now we're not going to let anyone come back and take any piece of it back." That's an attitude I see right on the surface all over the West these days. ”

—Noam Chomsky ’ Understanding Power’ (2002) pp.176

“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.”

—Noam Chomsky

“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.”

—Noam Chomsky

“It is important to learn to be surprised by simple things - for example, by the fact that bodies fall down, not up, and that they fall at a certain rate; that if pushed, they move on a flat surface in a straight line, not a circle; and so on. The beginning of science is the recognition that the simplest phenomena of life raise quite serious problems: Why are they as they are, instead of some different way?”

—Noam Chomsky, Language and Problems of Knowledge

“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
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