Some of My Favorite Quotes

Hi Everyone...
Here are some of my favorite quotes that I have picked up from the Internet. Quite informative, interesting, and so very true.

"No people can be both ignorant and free."
-Thomas Jefferson

"The media serve the interests of state and corporate power, which are closely interlinked, framing their reporting and analysis in a manner supportive of established privilege, and limiting debate and discussion accordingly."
- Noam Chomsky

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture, just get the people to stop reading them."
- Ray Bradbury

"Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from the citizenry. It is about responsible government. We have to get our fellow Americans to trust their leaders less and themselves more, trust their own questions and suspicions, and their own desire to know what is going on."
- Michael Parenti

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary."
- George Orwell

"Television is altering the meaning of "being informed" by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation... Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing."
- Neil Postman

"The price good people pay for their indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
- Plato

"For ethics to matter to us, the happiness and suffering of others must matter to us."
- Sam Harris

"To oppose the policies of a government does not mean you are against the country or the people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent, or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing. Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer, do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and look where it got them."
- Michael Parenti

"To criticize one's country is to do it a service .... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism - a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and national adulation."
- U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright

and finally....

"Free and responsible government by popular consent just can't exist without an informed public."
- Bill Moyers

and the last but not the least, and the most favorite of all...

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is not Ignorance....

.... it is the illusion of Knowledge."

- Stephen Hawking