A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.... The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. |
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. |
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know. |
Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism... A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers. |
Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism... A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers. |
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. |
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. |
The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. |
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. |
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. |
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. |
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. |
Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty. |
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. |
