Quotes of the day - Mailer,Parenti,Justice Douglas

"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? " -- Justice William O. Douglas - (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice

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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. - Norman Mailer (b. 1923), U.S. author. Advertisements for Myself, "First Advertisement for Myself" (1959).

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"If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984. He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd, and a press that (a) dutifully reports the suppressive measures he is taking to save the nation from internal chaos and foreign threat; and (b) gingerly questions whether he will be able to succeed." -- Michael Parenti - (1933- ) - Source: "Inventing Reality" (1986)