"If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass."

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Source : "John Perry Barlow 2.0". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. August 1, 2004.

John Perry Barlow

#Ideas Quotes #Ignorant Quotes #Mass Quotes

“It's been a huge blessing, being able to travel and have a great life.”
“I think the best way I could ever fight racism is just being as successful as possible.”
“You have infinite value and worth! You already know you have strengths and inner resources. But you have even more strengths and resources that you are not yet fully aware of, and they will enhance your life as you become more aware of them. There are many more strengths and inner resources that you can gain and build up from now on.”

Source : Zelig Pliskin (2006). “Building your self-image: and the self-image of others”
“in her dreams, blood tasted like fizzy strawberry soda. If you drank it too fast, you got brain freeze. When she was older, after she'd licked a cut on her finger, the taste of that became the taste in her dreams: copper and tears.”
“He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind. Repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity for communicating dissent and opposition. This is the formula for political conditioning of the masses.”
“My dad was a class person on and off the field. That's the person I want to be.”
“When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.”
“I have learned that the stuff that causes me anxiety, the stuff I instinctively veer away from, is usually a road map to where my own creative growth can be found. So I consciously head toward the places that make me uncomfortable.”

Source : Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2011.

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