Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions."
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Ignorant Masses
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Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business… the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products."
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