Maintaining silence about a dirty truth is another way of lying, a common practice in high places.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as 'the nature of things.' The very efficacy of opinion manipulation rests on the fact that we do not know we are being manipulated. The most insidious forms of oppression are those that so insinuate themselves into our communication universe and the recesses of our minds that we do not even realize they are acting upon us.

The dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty.

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

Our fear that communism might someday take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti- communism already has.

People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.