Whoever controls the media – the images – controls the culture.
Allen Ginsberg

Electric technology is directly related to our central nervous system, so it is ridiculous to talk of ‘what the public wants’ played over its nerves. Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left.
Marshall McLuhan

We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge.
John Naisbilt

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have these three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence to practice neither.
Mark Twain

Beware of the newspapers. They will have you hating the oppressed and loving the people doing the oppressing.
Malcolm X

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