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2010 August 27
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"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived." |
"It is discouraging to think
how many people are shocked by honesty
and how few by deceit." |
"The world wishes to be deceived." |
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2010 August 26
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"I must own, I know not what Treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason, in the eternal and original Nature of Things." |
"Nobody should be compelled to respect an ideology that doesn’t respect them." |
"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed." |
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2010 August 25
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"The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence." |
"The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war." |
"Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government." |
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2010 August 24
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"No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance." |
"A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence." |
"When all think alike, no one is thinking very much." |
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2010 August 23
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"[I]t is a truth which the experience of all ages has attested,
that the people are always most in danger, when the means of injuring
their rights are in the possession of those of whom
they entertain the least suspicion." |
"Even today a crude sort of persecution
is all that is required to create
an honorable name for any sect,
no matter how indifferent in itself." |
"Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims." |
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