“… the stupefying effect spectator sports have in making people passive, atomized, obedient nonparticipants—nonquestioning, easily controlled and easily disciplined”

“Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.”

“Make your company a rarity, and people will value it. Men despise what they can easily have.”

“Some observers compare elections in some countries with sports events, where people are but spectators. Moreover, elections must not be mere interludes for pushing a lever and then retreating to passivity, for democracy demands committed participation in the daily workings of society.”

“The controls fell easily to hand, and from there onto the floor.”

“How easily people fall into hatred. How easily people throw hoaxes and lies. Because they know that nowadays people are also easily instigated, manipulated and agitated.”

“Even if it is difficult, it is ‘to develop, fix, and make yourself.’ Then you will control yourself well, live your life easily, and prosper.”

“Dictatorship is when the government can easily control and manipulate citizens' demands.”

“In chess or in football, the tactic that proves most effective is soon the one that people learn easily to block. Every innovation in attack is soon countered by another in defence.”

“In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.”