Quote by Steven Spielberg about his first movie experience
“My dad took me to my first movie. It was ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.”
Steven Spielberg
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Walter Lippmann on Popular Rule and Political Power
“We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.”
Walter Lippmann
Quote About Freedom and Servitude by Aldous Huxley
“The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.”
Aldous Huxley
“Inflation is taxation without legislation” – Milton Friedman
“Inflation is taxation without legislation.”
Milton Friedman
“Higher taxes never reduce the deficit” – Milton Friedman
“Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.”
Milton Friedman
Quote About Power and Responsibility by Walter Lippmann
“It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.”
Walter Lippmann
Aldous Huxley on Propaganda and Mind Control
“Hitler’s vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.”
Aldous Huxley
Education and Critical Thinking – Thomas Sowell
“Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far.”
Thomas Sowell
Walter Lippmann Quote on the Public and Freedom
“The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.”
Walter Lippmann
Capitalism and Socialism – Quote by Milton Friedman
“The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.”
Milton Friedman