“The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire, [...]”

— Noam Chomsky

Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace, 1985, p. 275

Commonly rephrased as: "Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the [U.S.] media."
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american linguist, philosopher and activist 1928

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Context: The uniformity and obedience of the media, which any dictator would admire, [... ]

Turning the Tide: U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace, 1985, p. 275
Commonly rephrased as: "Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the [U.S.] media."

“Which would you rather be, a dumb person or a dictator? Perhaps a dictator would be better. I don't want to be a dumb person.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

"Trump says he'd rather be 'a dictator' than 'a dumb person' after bragging about the cognitive test he took in 2018" https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-rather-be-a-dictator-than-a-dumb-person-video-2022-4?r=US&IR=T, Business Insider, 22 April 2022
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“Print, in turning the vernaculars into mass media, or closed systems, created the uniform, centralizing forces of modern nationalism.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 226

“Every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it, and accept it. And this is mainstream media. There should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies.”

Sean Penn (1960) American actor, screenwriter, and film director

Referring to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, in an appearance on the HBO show Real time with Bill Maher http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/03/08/sean-penn-wants-reporters-jailed-calling-chavez-dictator/ (March, 2010)

“Allow dissent & free media for 6 months in Russia and see what happens. Putin would never risk it because he’s terrified of his own people and the truth, like every dictator.”

Garry Kasparov (1963) former chess world champion

As quoted in "Is Putin Popular?" https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/is-putin-popular-c/ (2018), by Jay Nordlinger, National Review
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“We call him a hero who maintains himself, single-handed, against superior numbers. We call him a master-horseman who sits a fiery and vicious steed, guiding him at will. And in like manner, we call him a moral hero who conquers the enemies within his own breast — and we admire and revere the soul which can ride its own passions and force them into obedience to the dictates of reason.”

Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer

Section 4 : Moral Ideals
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)

““The Empress expects obedience of her servants, and demands loyalty.”
“Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.””

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Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999), Chapter 3 (p. 90)

“But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it—everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'—you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?”

Amy Goodman (1957) American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter and author

Independent Media in a Time of War http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id490.html.

“The more exquisite any good is, of which a small specimen is afforded us, the sharper is the evil, allied to it; and few exceptions are found to this uniform law of nature.”

David Hume The Natural History of Religion

Part XV - General corollary
The Natural History of Religion (1757)
Context: The more exquisite any good is, of which a small specimen is afforded us, the sharper is the evil, allied to it; and few exceptions are found to this uniform law of nature. The most sprightly wit borders on madness; the highest effusions of joy produce the deepest melancholy; the most ravishing pleasures are attended with the most cruel lassitude and disgust; the most flattering hopes make way for the severest disappointments. And, in general, no course of life has such safety (for happiness is not to be dreamed of) as the temperate and moderate, which maintains, as far as possible, a mediocrity, and a kind of insensibility, in every thing. As the good, the great, the sublime, the ravishing are found eminently in the genuine principles of theism; it may be expected, from the analogy of nature, that the base, the absurd, the mean, the terrifying will be equally discovered in religious fictions and chimeras.

“Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.”

Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India

Ethical Religion, S. Ganesan, Madras (1922) p. 8
1920s

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