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
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
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 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
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
“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
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
Ronald Reagan in the US was not a particularly popular president, but after his death sectors of wealth and power created a… — 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
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
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
“So in the twentieth century, there’s a major current of American thought―in fact, it’s probably the dominant current among people who think… — 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
Now, you ban not the whole Muslim world. You ban seven states, seven states that have not been responsible for a single… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Among the many symbols used to frighten and manipulate the populace of the democratic states, few have been more important than "terror"… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“It is clear enough why both major propaganda systems insist upon this fantasy. Since its origins, the Soviet State has attempted to… — 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