“People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.”
Source: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter XXVI, p. 149
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