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.

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You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

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The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.

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Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

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That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

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If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.

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The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

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If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

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Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

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