"Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly,..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.
More by Albert Einstein
“If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.”
“If you can't explain something simply, you don't know enough about it.”
“External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.”
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“The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.”
“I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.”
“Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.”