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Control Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
- You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
- The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised…
- There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.
- Governments don't control people like they used to.
- Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely-crowded refugee camps, schools, apartment blocks, mosques, and slums to attack a population that has…
- Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.
- Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by…
- Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic…
- The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary…
- Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control. Namely, the kind…
- But, that's the whole point of corporatization - to try to remove the public from making decisions over their own fate, to limit the public…
- Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities have a dominant…
- Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis…
- Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are…
- Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if…
- Anarcho-syndic alism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, the enterprises in which they work, along with communities,…
- Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social…
- If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship
- The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political…
More Control Quotes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of… — Steve Carell
- If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself-or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way… — Oprah Winfrey
- It is the policy of the Indian government: We can lament the lack of talent in the country because it is easier… — Mak_786
- You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. — Marcus Aurelius
- I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in… — Tyra Banks