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- There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
- Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
- Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.
- Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to…
- If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live…
- Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well,…
- The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to…
- The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great…
- One of the questions asked in that study was, How many Vietnamese casualties would you estimate that there were during the Vietnam war? The average…
- Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one of…
- Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are, in principle, under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if…
- You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.
- People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They…
- Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active…
- ...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers.…
- One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a…
- Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to…
- ...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in the economy…
- For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.
- To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one of…
- Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a…
- This Sarah Palin phenomenon is very curious. I think somebody watching us from Mars—they would think the country has gone insane.
- The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political…
- It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.
- There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable…
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- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle