Joseph Stalin Quotes

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

I have always worried about who can read, who can't, who doesn't, and the great, life-altering consequences hidden within those distinctions.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The law is solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it.

The less people know about what is going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

An expert is someone who is capable of articulating the interests of people with power.

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

The word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.

America is run by the rich and powerful in their own interest. To an extent that I think is hard to exaggerate, the intellectuals - academics, journalists and so on - are bought off. And that's a big change that happened in the United States in the last 30 or 40 years.

I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

Money is power and power gives you choice.

Everyone has power. But it doesn't help if you don't use it.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

An educated people can be easily governed.