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2013 January 11
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"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people
forget that certain other sets of people are human." |
"Hastiness and superficiality
are the psychic diseases
of the twentieth century,
and more than anywhere else
this disease is reflected in the press." |
"In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification." |
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2013 January 10
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"In May 1998, [Los Angeles Times publisher Mark] Willis told the Wall Street Journal that he wanted to make the Times more appealing to women and minorities by producing stories that were 'more emotional, more personal and less analytic.'" |
"Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent." |
"Public sentiment is everything.
With public sentiment nothing can fail.
Without it nothing can succeed.
He who molds opinion is greater
than he who enacts laws." |
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2013 January 09
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"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." |
“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk.’” |
"As the world goes, right is only in question between equals in power,
while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." |
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2013 January 08
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"There are many men of principle
in both parties in America,
but there is no party of principle." |
"There exist in the world only two great parties; that of those who prefer to live from the produce of their labor or of their property, and that of those who prefer to live on the labor or the property of others." |
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2013 January 07
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"...I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason..." |
"Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state." |
"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason." |
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