You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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More Noam Chomsky Quotes
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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