Mass media

"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way." Emile Zola

"Truth has nothing to do with the number of people it convinces." Paul Claudel

"At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice." Gore Vidal

"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you." Carl Gustav Jung

"Guns against war is like liquor against alcoholism." William Booth

"If at a future moment fascism will return, it will not be so stupid as to say: 'I am fascism.' It will say: 'I am antifascism.'" Ignazio Silone

"American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor." Upton Sinclair

"Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy." Noam Chomsky

"In Washington 52 years now I've seen a lot of change but there's one change the dwarfs all the other changes in importance and that is that we no longer have in any real sense a free media and that is big that could not be bigger" Ray McGovern

"The predominant reason mainstream news reporters say things that aren’t true is because in order to be hired by mainstream news outlets, you need to jack your mind into a power-serving worldview that is not based in truth." Caitlin Johnstone

"You wish to know my "confidential opinion as to the honesty of the Associated Press." My opinion, not confidential, is that it is the damndest, meanest monopoly on the face of the earth--the wet-nurse for all other monopolies. It lies by day, it lies by night, and it lies for the very lust of lying. Its news-gatherers, I sincerely believe, only obey orders." James H. Barry

"Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters." Upton Sinclair

"If it is claimed that a substance has no side effects, then there is a strong suspicion that it does not have any principal effect." Gustav Kuschinsky

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it." Blaise Pascal