America Quote by Walter Karp
“By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'”
![“A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power.And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by…” quote by Walter Cronkite](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f04/walter-cronkite-1759_available_a-handful-of-us-determine-what-will-be-o_2275161.jpg)
![“What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.” quote by Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b1/walter-karp-49008_budgets_what-chiefly-governs-the-u-s-military-bu_878781.jpg)
![“[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.” quote by Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/138/walter-karp-49008_authority_the-public-school-system-is-usually-a-tw_1587731.jpg)
![“There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into five wars. What an aggressive foreign policy accomplishes by slow degrees, a state of war accomplishes in a trice. Overnight [war] kills reform…” quote by Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/be9/walter-karp-49008_accomplish_there-is-nothing-puzzling-about-america_1827112.jpg)
![“I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]” quote by Bill Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3d2/bill-hicks-970_america_i-ll-smoke-i-ll-cough-i-ll-get-the-tumor_655.jpg)
