Education Quote by Daniel Keys Moran

Power hates nothing like a population with tuned-in ears. Daniel Keys Moran’s line doesn’t flatter “truth” as some abstract holy object; it treats truth as a practical skill, almost a streetwise kind of literacy. The verb choice matters: “learn to recognize” implies the truth is already circulating, spoken out loud, but disguised by noise, repetition, and official packaging. The threat isn’t that people will be handed new information. It’s that they’ll stop being hypnotized by familiar lies.

“Power structure” is deliberately clinical, not a villain with a face. That’s the subtext: the danger isn’t a single corrupt leader but the machinery - institutions, incentives, media habits, professional gatekeepers - that survives by managing what feels believable. Moran’s phrasing also dodges the comforting fantasy that power only fears dissent. Dissent can be theatrical; it can be contained, commodified, even used as proof of “openness.” What can’t be safely managed is a shift in perception, when audiences become competent at pattern-recognition: spotting evasions, identifying self-serving framings, hearing the tells.

Contextually, this comes out of a late-20th-century sensibility where information is abundant and trust is scarce. It anticipates the modern attention economy, where the contest isn’t access to facts but control over narrative plausibility. The line lands because it flips the usual drama: the revolution isn’t in the streets, it’s in the brainstem moment when a listener thinks, Wait - that doesn’t add up. That recognition is contagious, and power knows it.