The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses. – John Stuart Mill

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 T. Agnew

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasnt happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. – Jonathan Safran Foer