Education is emancipation from herd opinion, self-mastery, capacity for self-criticism, suspended judgment, and urbanity. - Everett Dean Martin

One reason why people cherish the delusion that they are still free long after they have lost or destroyed the liberties won by their ancestors lies in the boundless vanity of man when acting as mass. The mass in modern times believes it is sovereign. As sovereign it is free.

Propaganda is making puppets out of us. We are moved by hidden strings which the propagandist manipulates.

It must be borne in mind that everything the propagandist does or says is for effect—most commonly the effect on fools. The public wants not truth but a show?