Matthias

“[...] the institutional bias of the private mass media "does not merely protect the corporate system. It robs the public of a chance to understand the real world.”
― Edward S. Herman, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

“The logic is that of a man falling from a skyscraper who waves to a friend on the fiftieth floor and says it's all fine, just look how many floors I've passed with no problems.”
― Noam Chomsky, Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs.”
― James Connolly

“In other words, first we rob and then destroy them, and then when they ask for a little bit of help, we kick them in the face. The technical term for this is "Western civilization".”
― Noam Chomsky, Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance