Modern Social Theory Self-Test

These guess-who-said-it exercises are pretty much obsolete in the internet era; you can just look up the quotes online, in somewhat the same way you might do a plagiarism search.  So no prizes will be awarded, and you don’t have to rush to post the correct answer in the comments.  This is purely for your own edification.

I’m reading the latest blast from Phil Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown.  More on that later—like, when I finish reading it.  But for now, here is an intriguing quote he cites along the way.  Try to guess who said it, then check to see if you’re right.

Probably it is true enough that the great majority are rarely capable of thinking independently, that on most questions they accept views which they find ready-made, and that they will be equally content if born or coaxed into one set of beliefs or another.  In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance only for a small minority.