Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – “indoctrination,” we might say – exercised through the mass media.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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The one thing I have learned in my life is that you cannot control events, you can only control how you react to them.