20th century Quote by Alex Carey

“The 20th century has been characterised by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the…

— Thom Hartmann

The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of…

— Noam Chomsky

“The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the…

— Alex Carey

The biggest thing that limits India's growth is democracy, but it is needed. We cannot overrule it.

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living -- to strengthen their conscience, compassion, and ability to question and…

— Paul K. Chappell

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

— Noam Chomsky

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

— William Blum

Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If…

— Noam Chomsky

The constitutional and political importance of the law office of the Attorney General is such that you can't just job share, and you can't…

— Suella Braverman

The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the powers that…

— Graham Hough

In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward.

— Rose George

Leonid Brezhnev did not understand the enormous political importance of the decision to produce and afterwards deploy the SS-20s.

— Helmut Schmidt