Steven Perez

“The mass media serve as a system for communicating messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfil this role requires systematic propaganda.”
― Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

“There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.”
― Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
― Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“The most dementing of all modern sins: the inability to distinguish excellence from success.”
― David Hare