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"What you find in people's minds today is often not reality at all, but a manufactured reality constructed by the media" Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
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"Public opinion is influenced by the media and the media are in the hands of those who rule and those who rule favor those who say what is convenient for them and erase everything that does not suit them. So public opinion is, above all, media opinion." José Luis Sampedro Sáez
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"…Whoever has the power in society determines what can be studied, determines what can be observed, determines what can be thought. Scientists fall in line with the dominant power structure. They have to, because the power structure pays the bills. You don’t play ball with the power structure, you don’t get money for research, you don’t get an appointment, you don’t get published, in short you don’t count anymore. You’re out. You might as well be dead." Michael Crichton
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"I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits.... Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king of the gipsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, writers and schoolmasters? If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell, it is this society of Loyola's. Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum." John Adams
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"The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power – power in its most despotic exercise – absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man [i.e., the Black Pope, the Superior General of the Jesuits]. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses…" Napoleon Bonaparte
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"He who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire
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"For the greater good": the phrase that  always precedes the greatest evil." Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
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"There is nothing so permanent as a temporary government program." Milton Friedman
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"The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate." Robert A. Heinlein
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"Now “public opinion” stood out as a force that must be managed, and not through clever guesswork but by experts trained to do that all-important job." Edward Bernays
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"You are not a free citizen participating in a noble democracy. You are simply tax-generating livestock, occasionally allowed to vote for which butcher gets to hold the knife." Lysander Spooner