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- All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that…
- Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
- Democracy, in the United States rhetoric refers to a system of governance in which elite elements based in the business community control the state by…
- Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic…
- 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…
- In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting…
- In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that…
- By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.
- When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office,…
- Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and repression, and massive efforts to control opinion and…
- If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.
- Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from…
- All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that…
More Popular Quotes
- Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s. — Dan Aykroyd
- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
- I think what separates me from the candidates is the fact that I have a proven track record of being a fighter.… — Michele Bachmann
- My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something… — Cleveland Abbe
- When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires. — Alan Ball
- It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for… — Antonio Banderas
- It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that'… — Douglas Adams