QUOTE A DAY - Feb. 23, 2012

Greetings fellow quote lovers:

Can you hear the drums of war on every news channel? The techniques of propaganda are everywhere. Iran is demonized, Santorum leaps into front runner status thru demonizing Muslims....war is near and my heart is heavy once again.

Best,
JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.
--George Bernard Shaw, "The Genuine Islam", 1936

The US has no independent print and TV media. It has presstitutes who are paid for the lies that they tell.
--Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Sec. of Treasury under Ronald Reagan

There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.
--John Swinton, 19th Century NY Times Reporter


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
All technological change is a trade-off. I like to call it a Faustian bargain. Technology giveth and technology taketh away.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.
--Edward Bernays, Father of modern-day PR and Freud's nephew

The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart
--Frederick Douglass


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

All technological change is a trade-off. I like to call it a Faustian bargain. Technology giveth and technology taketh away.

ANSWER: Neil Postman

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