Noam Chomsky — "Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very spirited debate within that spectrum."

"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged."

"The media serves the powerful."

"The public is not supposed to understand these things. It's supposed to believe what it's told."

"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."