A Quote by Noam Chomsky

Whoever sets the agenda controls the outcome of the debate

Noam Chomsky

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Agenda Controls Debate Outcome Sets Whoever

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Noam Chomsky
American - Activist
Born: December 7, 1928

Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.

Erica Jong

Certainly, every student and school ought to have standards and evaluation, but who sets those standards, and who writes the test? Whoever controls the test controls the school.

James Lankford

Whoever controls the flow of information dictates our perceptions and perspectives; whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.

George Clinton

Jack's [Ma Yun ] theory is that whoever controls data controls the world.

Masayoshi Son

Whoever controls the education of our children controls the future.

Wilma Mankiller

Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.

Susan B. Anthony

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

Allen Ginsberg

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Jim Morrison

Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

George Orwell

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

Howard Zinn

I lay this down as a fundamental proposition, which I do not think will be denied, that whoever controls the taxation and trade policy of a country controls its destiny and the entire character of its civilization.

George William Russell

You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team

Don Meyer

I started boxing for exercise, and on the very first day, the trainer got in the ring with me and said, 'Whoever controls the breathing in the ring controls the fight.' I immediately passed out.

Garry Shandling

The problem is big government. If whoever controls government can impose his way upon you, you have to fight constantly to prevent the control from being harmful. With small, limited government, it doesn't much matter who controls it, because it can't do you much harm.