“Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.”
Avram Noam Chomsky
“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.”
“The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people”
“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
“The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history”
“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”