Noam Chomsky — "The whole point of the corporate system is to get rid of independent thinking."

"The United States is not a democracy, it's a corporatocracy."

"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."

"It's a truism that almost any scientist will tell you: The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know."

"The United States is a deeply corrupt society, and its political system is rigged in favor of the wealthy."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."