Don't let them read, don't let them learn. Keep them suppressed and ensure that they never use their brain. It all makes sense now. If they start learning, they'll stop buying the rhetoric you sell to them, and once they stop buying that, you won't have feeble minds to rule over anymore. Once you don't have feeble minds to rule over, who will you sell roti, kapra aur makaan to? No exaggerated rhetoric of war will win people's support.

You say we have the bomb? I say keep your bomb, give me food instead. We don't have electricity, we don't have food, and as a matter of fact, we don't have the freedom to talk openly.

The bomb won't help us feed families, nor will the hollow rhetoric of religion that we've sold to our people for years and years.

In other places, each coming day is better than the previous; that means progress. Every day brings something better. For us, it has been quite the opposite. Each coming day has proven to be worse. Why........

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