Propaganda Quotes by Noam Chomsky

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

— Noam Chomsky

Concision is a technique of propaganda. It ensures you cannot do anything except repeat clichés, the standard doctrine, or sound like a…

— Noam Chomsky

For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.

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It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive…

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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

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Ronald Reagan in the US was not a particularly popular president, but after his death sectors of wealth and power created a…

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You can't mention Hezbollah in the U.S. media without putting in the context of "Iranian-supported Hezbollah." That's its name. Its name is…

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In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second…

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Every time a candidate came up from the base, that is with popular support, the Republican establishment went into high gear to…

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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they…

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You have to love that government, but hate the government that might work in your interest and that you could control. That's…

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Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit…

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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they…

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For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices…

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The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all…

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The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer…

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“The U.S. media do not function in the manner of the propaganda system of a totalitarian state. Rather, they permit indeed encourage…

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The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good…

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“It's intellectual freedom when a journalist can understand that 2 + 2 = 4; that's what Orwell was writing about in 1984.…

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If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business…

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The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,…

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You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -…

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“..people would like to think there's somebody up there who knows what he's doing. Since we don't participate, we don't control and…

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“If the media were honest, they would say, Look, here are the interests we represent and this is the framework within which…

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“Since its origins, socialism has meant the liberation of working people from exploitation. As the Marxist theoretician Anton Pannekoek observed, “this goal…

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“In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize that. If you’ve taken an economics…

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“Back in the 1920s, the major manual of the public relations industry actually was titled Propaganda (in those days, people were a…

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“In fact, the nature of Western systems of indoctrination is typically not understood by dictators, they don’t understand the utility for propaganda…

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“Propaganda campaigns in general have been closely attuned to elite interests. The Red scare of 1919-20 have served well to abort the…

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“It is clear enough why both major propaganda systems insist upon this fantasy. Since its origins, the Soviet State has attempted to…

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“For example, take George McGovern [1972 Presidential candidate who campaigned on an anti-war platform]. George McGovern did not support the invasion of…

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“Among the many symbols used to frighten and manipulate the populace of the democratic states, few have been more important than "terror"…

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“Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual…

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“The hypothesis advanced by the propaganda model, excluded from debate as unthinkable, is that in dealing with the American wars in Indochina,…

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U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with…

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That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going…

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State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It…

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We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy…

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The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct…

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The contradiction is somehow unresolved. In the case of the business propaganda, it's particularly ironic because while business wants the population to…

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