The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
NOAM CHOMSKYBy and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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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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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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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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