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2016 June 24
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"The trouble with most folks
isn't so much their ignorance,
as knowing so many things
that ain't so." |
"The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any." |
"The power of authority is never more subtle and effective
than when it produces a psychological "atmosphere" or "climate"
favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable,
and even fatal, to the life of others." |
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2016 June 23
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"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." |
"The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority
indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be
accepted as such by a majority of the people." |
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." |
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2016 June 22
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"Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society." |
"Most of the harm in the world is done by good people,
and not by accident, lapse, or omission.
It is the result of their deliberate actions,
long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated
by high ideals toward virtuous ends." |
"The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side." |
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2016 June 21
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"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder
respectable, and to give the appearance of solidarity to pure wind." |
"Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds
while withholding some of the facts from them." |
"Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant." |
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2016 June 20
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"The devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist!" |
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation
of the organized habits and opinions of the masses
is an important element in democratic society." |
"I wouldn't call it fascism exactly,
but a political system nominally controlled
by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate
who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media
that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment
can hardly be described as democracy either." |
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