Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

-Hirsch, E(ric) D(onald),Jr
  Cultural Literacy: What Every  American Needs to Know, introduction.

Democracies must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijackers of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

-Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness
  Speech to theAmerican BarAssociation meeting in London, referring in particular to increasing British press coverage of IRA terrorist activities,15 Jul.