Notable Quotable 146

Nov 14, 2023

The media is the most powerful entity on earth. Because they control the minds of the masses, they have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power…If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

- Malcolm X

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

- Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

- Albert Einstein

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

- Terry Pratchett

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

- Oscar Wilde

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

- Frederick Douglass

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

- Corazon Aquino