Notable Quotable 147

Nov 15, 2023

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

- Arundhati Roy

American people are very much like the children of a Mafia boss who do not know what their father does for a living, and don't want to know, but then wonder why someone just threw a firebomb through the living room window.

- William Blum

I find it hard to get excited about elections when the two leading parties are corrupt.

- Steven Magee

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

To change masters is not to be free.

- Jose Marti y Perez

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The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole of life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic initiative.

- Joseph Goebbels

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

- Mark Twain

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

- Adlai Stevenson

All fascist and totalitarian movements paper over their squalid belief systems with the veneer of morality.

- Chris Hedges

Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power.

- William Gaddis