quotes about Informed Citizenry

“It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.”

“The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.”

“The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.”

“The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.”

“Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.”

Source : "MP3 revolution splitting music industry along cyber lines". December 16, 1998, www.cnn.com.

“I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published”

“We all behave as though what we think is true, is true.”

“Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.”

Source : "My Life With Spam". www.perl.com. February 9, 2000.

“While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.”

Source : Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.48, Penguin

“Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.”