Notable Quotable 103

Aug 31, 2023

We are here to add what we can to, not what we can get from life.

- Sir William Ossler

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse their office.

- Louise Slaughter

A newspaper is a public trust, and we will suffer as a society without them. It is not the Internet that has killed them. It is their own greed, it is their own stupidity, and it is capitalism that has taken our daily newspapers from us.

- Michael Moore

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

- Alice Walker

This generation is burning the mass media to the ground. We are reclaiming our rights to world history.

- Julian Assange

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We have the greatest opportunity the world has ever seen, as long as we remain honest -- which will be as long as we can keep the attention of our people alive. If they once become inattentive to public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors would all become wolves.

- Thomas Jefferson

The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.

- Garry Kasparov

Educate and inform the whole mass of people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

- Thomas Jefferson

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

- George Orwell

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace and gossip is called news.

- Criss Jami, Killosophy