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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan

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“So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.” – Bertrand Russell

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“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” – Douglas Adams

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“You can’t censor language. It’s our greatest, greatest achievement.” – John Lydon

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“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.” – Oscar Wilde

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“The press is not characterised by the good it does, but by the evil it prevents.” – Alexis de Tocqueville

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“The people can always be brought to do the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.” – Hermann Goering

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“The other argument for war, that Saddam’s evil is proved by his war against Iran and his treatment of Kurds, is poetic in its hypocrisy. It’s true he did both those things but we were backing him at the time. The Americans shot down a civilian Iranian plane, vetoed a United Nations resolution condemning the attacks on the Kurds and dismissed anyone who pointed out this barbarism.” -  Mark Steel

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“[Morris dancing] is the least cool of the martial arts.” – Hugh Dennis

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“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.” – James Branch Cabel

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“The only justification for war is the danger of a pre-emptive strike. I do not see that at all. This is about unfinished business.” – Professor Sir Bernard Crick on the invasion of Iraq

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“Fear makes people deferential, docile, and distrustful, and both politicians and marketers have learned to take advantage of this.” – Bruce Schneier

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“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” – GW Bush

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“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly, it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.” – Joseph Goebbels

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“The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them.” – Albert Einstein