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“I agree with Adam Smith on this-we'd like to see a tendency toward equality. Not just equality of opportunity, but actual equality— the ability, at every stage of one's existence, to access information and make decisions on the basis of it.”
― Noam Chomsky, Secrets, Lies and Democracy

“If people are sufficiently intimidated, if the popular organizations are sufficiently destroyed, if the people have had it beaten into their heads that either they accept the rule of those with the guns or else they live and die in unrelieved misery, than your elections will all come out the way you want. And everybody will cheer.”
― Noam Chomsky, Secrets, Lies and Democracy

“That's a dramatic example of the efficiency with which business controls US ideology, of how effective its propaganda and indoctrination have been in depriving people of any awareness of their own rights and history.
You have to wait for poor Latino and Chinese workers to celebrate an international holiday of solidarity with American workers.”
― Noam Chomsky, Secrets, Lies and Democracy

“This argument isn't quite presented step-by-step like that in the article-I've collapsed it. It's very clever propaganda, well designed, well crafted, with plenty of thought behind it. Its goal is to make people as stupid, ignorant, passive and obedient as possible, while at the same time making them feel that they're somehow moving towards higher forms of participation.”
― Noam Chomsky, Secrets, Lies and Democracy