"Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well..."

-- Noam Chomsky

#Attitude Quotes #Media Quotes #Class Quotes

“Negotiating means getting the best of your opponent.”
“History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.”
“Music has always been transnational;”
“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
“Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a 'war on terrorism'. You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?”

Source : "Powell speaks with forked tongue" by Terry Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2003.
“The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out into the woods and there allowed to die. One of my patients struck his neck so often on the edge of a chisel fixed on the ground that all the soft parts were cut through to the vertebrae.”

Source : Emil Kraepelin (2002). “Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English: Manic-depressive insanity and paranoia”, Thoemmes Pr
“White lies are ushers to black ones.”
“There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.”

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