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Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

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.

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn’t escape left or right because of the will of the driver.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

When I’m forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it’s all I can do to refrain from attack.

I don’t control the movies that are offered to me, but I make choices based on certain parameters.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

When I got to 40 or so… I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.