All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Every time a candidate came up from the base, that is with popular support, the Republican establishment went into high gear to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You have to love that government, but hate the government that might work in your interest and that you could control. That's… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The U.S. media do not function in the manner of the propaganda system of a totalitarian state. Rather, they permit indeed encourage… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“It's intellectual freedom when a journalist can understand that 2 + 2 = 4; that's what Orwell was writing about in 1984.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“..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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system -… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Since its origins, socialism has meant the liberation of working people from exploitation. As the Marxist theoretician Anton Pannekoek observed, “this goal… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Propaganda campaigns in general have been closely attuned to elite interests. The Red scare of 1919-20 have served well to abort the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Back in the 1920s, the major manual of the public relations industry actually was titled Propaganda (in those days, people were a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In fact, the nature of Western systems of indoctrination is typically not understood by dictators, they don’t understand the utility for propaganda… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize that. If you’ve taken an economics… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“For example, take George McGovern [1972 Presidential candidate who campaigned on an anti-war platform]. George McGovern did not support the invasion of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The point of public relations slogans like 'Support our troops' is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The contradiction is somehow unresolved. In the case of the business propaganda, it's particularly ironic because while business wants the population to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's like these people are programmed by Karl Rove. What he wants is to have liberal critics ridicule Bush because he says… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Concision is a technique of propaganda. It ensures you cannot do anything except repeat clichés, the standard doctrine, or sound like a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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