Herbert Schiller

How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered…

— Herbert Schiller

For manipulation to be most effective, evidence of its presence should be nonexistent... It is essential, therefore, that people who are manipulated…

— Herbert Schiller

Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

— Herbert Schiller

The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core…

— Herbert Schiller

In the postindustrial age, labor is seen as essentially uninvolved in the social process because there is no need for assertive labor.

— Herbert Schiller

Behind all the hype shaping the electronic highway are corporate interests. These huge companies are doing the most natural thing in the…

— Herbert Schiller

My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either…

— Herbert Schiller

With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a…

— Herbert Schiller

Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public.

— Herbert Schiller

Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides,…

— Herbert Schiller

But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of…

— Herbert Schiller

In the 1990's, a time of corporate capital's global ascendancy, the mildest restraints on its prerogatives have been peremptorily rejected. Automatically, under…

— Herbert Schiller

The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in…

— Herbert Schiller

The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they…

— Herbert Schiller

One growing threat to the stability of the U.S. economy, and therefore to its capability to continue to direct the global order,…

— Herbert Schiller

Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation,…

— Herbert Schiller

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a…

— Herbert Schiller

Popular dissatisfaction seems to occur only when the shopping or the commercials are interrupted. In such an atmosphere, is there any reason…

— Herbert Schiller

I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from…

— Herbert Schiller

Though some still see the Internet, for example, as a democratic structure for international individual expression, it is more realistic to recognize…

— Herbert Schiller