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 | Criticism is perhaps the citizen's primary weapon in the exercise of her legitimacy. That is why, in this corporatist society, conformism, loyalty and silence are so admired and rewarded; why criticism is so punished or marginalized. | |
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| The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy. | |
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| Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. | |
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| Once the great dialectic was capital versus Labour. Now it's the conflict between the comfortable and the deprived. And the comfortable see government as the threat, because it is the only hope for the deprived. | |
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| 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. | |
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| Our society contains no method of serious self-criticism for the simple reason that it is now a self-justifying system which generates its own logic | |
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