"The guiding principle (for American government) is that as long as the public is under control, everything is fine"
-- Noam Chomsky
"The point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about."
-- Noam Chomsky
"Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony."
-- Noam Chomsky
"What remains of democracy is largely the right to choose among commodities. Business leaders have long explained the need to impose on the population a 'philosophy of futility' and 'lack of purpose in life' to 'concentrate human attention on the more superficial things that comprise much of fashionable consumption'. Deluged by such propaganda from infancy, people may then accept their meaningless and subordinate lives and forget ridiculous ideas about managing their own affairs. They abandon their fate to corporate managers and the PR industry, and, in the political realm, to the self described 'intelligent minorities' who administer power." - Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky (Hover)
"For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and in which all too often we serve as unwilling instruments."
-- Noam Chomsky
The Media-Assisted Manufacturing of "Corbyn's Anti-Semitism Crisis":
Op-Ed : Jewish critic of Israel Noam Chomsky (Who was banned from entering Israel in 2010 on account of his views of the state's conduct) discussed the distinction between the two concepts and the disingenuousness of attempts to conflate them at the UN in 2014 Ref. Source 2r.