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"The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want." Richard Warren Schickel
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"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy." A. J. Liebling
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"No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident." Paul Craig Roberts
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"The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda." Edward Bernays
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"Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother." Steven Patrick Morrissey
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"If bureaucracy continues to spread as it has, God will make the next deluge not with water, but with paper." Cyril Northcote Parkinson
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"Our profession is like that of actors. Without outside approval, we'll go under." Helmut Schmidt
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"An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power." Henry Kissinger
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"I will not risk American lives and a nuclear war by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unwise militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies" John F. Kennedy
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"If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free" Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." Abraham Lincoln