Propaganda and the Public Mind Quotes

“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,... [o]r else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
― Noam Chomsky, Propaganda and the Public Mind

“We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice.”
― Noam Chomsky, Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations With Noam Chomsky

“My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.”
― Noam Chomsky, Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations With Noam Chomsky

“If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.”
― Noam Chomsky, Propaganda and the Public Mind