“If you expect manners from modern newspapers you will be sorely disappointed in these democratic days. It is one of the blessings of modern democracy? If you were in America and did not give any interview, even then they would invent one? The press is a public institution; formerly, it was something dignified, but now the newspapers are the correct measure of the futility of human life…. It is the same with all other modern things… the press, the theatre, the radio; they drag down everything to the level of the crowd…. They succeed only if they can pamper the common man's tastes…. It is the same old question of the mass being pulled up by something higher. But, as it always happens, instead of being pulled up it is the mass that pulls everything down to its level….”

Source: What is to be Done? (1902), Chapter Three, Section E, Essential Works of Lenin (1966)

Vintage, p. 9
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1965)

Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote (1959)

Source: 1930s, Education and the Social Order (1932), p. 133

Anthropology and Politics (1995)

The Evolution of A Revolt (1920)

2010s

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

On his experience in solitary confinement in prison, in An Phoblacht/Republican News (1978), under the pseudonym "Marcella."
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