Knowledge

"The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment."
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921

"It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion."
--Joseph Paul Goebbels (1897-1945) Nazi Propaganda Minister
Source: Speech, October 1933

"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands."
--Spiro Agnew, U. S. Vice-President, November 13, 1969