« Advertising has greatly promoted media concentration, even among competitors hungry for the same commercial budgets: for a newspaper or television station, an additional market share and an advertising advantage can increase revenue, commercial aggressiveness and variety of programs to the point that their rivals do not recover: this explains the death of many newspapers and magazines. Since the introduction of advertising, popular left-wing newspapers have been disadvantaged by the means of their readers. As one publicist said in 1856, "their readers are not buyers; you might as well throw your money out the window!" »

« In a global economy designed to meet the interests and needs of large multinational corporations and international finance, as well as the sectors that serve them, most of the human species becomes superfluous. All these people will be sidelined if the institutional structures of power and privilege continue to function without being questioned or controlled by the popular masses. »

« If a former (American) drone operator, after killing people in Yemen or Afghanistan, becomes a whistleblower, his political commitment will be praised and he will be considered a victim of the system. If a former Al Qaeda bomber did the same thing, we wouldn't do that honor to him. Why is this so? (Lux, p.59) »