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“To
be well-educated, then, is to have the
desire as well as the means to make sure
that learning never ends.”
~Alfie Kohn
"The
smart way to keep people passive and
obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum
of acceptable opinion, but allow very
lively debate within that spectrum - even
encourage the more critical and dissident
views. That gives people the sense that
there's free thinking going on, while all
the time the presuppositions of the system
are being reinforced by the limits put on
the range of the debate."
~Noam Chomsky
“He
who controls the media controls the
culture.”
~Noam
Chomsky
“Propaganda
is to a democracy as a bludgeon is to a
totalitarian state.”
~Noam
Chomsky
"Because
I do it with one small ship, I am called a
pirate.
You do it with a whole fleet and are
called an emperor."
~A pirate, from St. Augustine's
"City of God"
"We
read advertisements . . . to discover and
enlarge our desires. We are always ready -
even eager - to discover, from the
announcement of a new product, what we
have all along wanted without really
knowing it."
~Daniel J. Boorstin
“Laws
are like spiders’ webs: they catch the
weak and the small,
but the strong and powerful break through
them.”
~Scythian,
one of the Seven Wise Men of Ancient
Greece
“Justice
being taken away, then, what are kingdoms
but great robberies?”
~St.
Augustine
"I am neither Athenian, nor
Greek.
I am a citizen of the world."
~Socrates
"For
a long time it had seemed to me that life
was about to begin - real life. But
there was always some obstacle in the way,
something to be gotten though first, some
unfinished business, time still to be
served, or a debt to be paid. Then
life would begin. At last it dawned
on me that these obstacles were my 'life.'"
~Alfred D. Souza
"You think you know who you are
...... you have
no idea."
~Crash (2005 Motion Picture)
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