Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
Profit over people and power over justice are the hallmarks of corporate power.
Language is a mirror of society, reflecting its values and priorities.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
The principle that we should embrace is that the actions of the state should be subjected to the scrutiny, and if necessary, the sanction of public opinion.
The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.
The goal of education is to produce human beings whose values are not accumulation of material wealth, but are instead directed towards the development of the human capacity.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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.
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future.
We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
Language is the main vehicle for the transmission of culture.
The responsibility of an individual is to participate in the process of social change.
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter.
Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
There is no such thing as a ‘neutral’ educational process. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.
The greater the power, the less the need for spelling it out.
Conditions of life are not entirely constrained by external forces, but are substantially a complex of meanings.
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature.
We are all capable of imagining a better world. But to create such a world, we must believe in it, and we must take individual and collective action.
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.
Human intelligence can be used as a weapon of oppression, or as a tool for questioning and transgression.
In a role playing society, people can find it very difficult to rise above their assigned roles, because they become fixed in them.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
To be free does not mean to have options, but to be able to choose without outside pressure.
The opposite of talking is not listening, but waiting.
The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.
It’s a narrow spectrum of opinion that is supposed to define the boundaries of acceptable discourse, but it’s too narrow even for the participants.
We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment, open up new horizons, and create the right conditions for human growth.
A greater degree of authoritarianism is becoming more and more necessary to maintain order and control the population.
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.
The working classes have been taught that democracy is being able to choose which liars will deceive you.
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
Language is a reflection of social relations.
Language is power, in the sense that people who master the language can influence others.
The role of intellectuals is to speak the truth and expose lies.
Language is a mirror of society. If we change the language, we change the society.
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
The responsibility of an individual is to participate in the process of social change.
The goal of education is to produce human beings whose values are not accumulation of material wealth, but are instead directed towards the development of the human capacity.
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter.
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