Noam Chomsky Quotes

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Noam Chomsky

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• Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

  

  Noam Chomsky
  • Democracy
  • Propaganda