Plato | Strange times are these in which we live
"Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool"
Plato
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Plato | Through foolishness they deceived themselves
"Through foolishness they deceived themselves into thinking that there was no right or wrong way in music, that it was to be judged good or bad by the pleasure it gave. By their works and their theories they infected the masses with the presumption to think themselves adequate judges. So our theatres, once silent, grew vocal, and aristocracy of music gave way to a pernicious theatrocracy...the criterion was not music, but a reputation for promiscuous cleverness and a spirit of law-breaking."
Plato
Neil Young | There’s more to the picture than meets the eye
"Hey hey, Rock and roll can never die. There's more to the picture than meets the eye"
Neil Young
Andrew Oldham | Rock music is sex
"Rock music is sex and you have to hit them [teenagers] in the face with it"
Andrew Oldham
Anton Szandor LaVey | Today’s Satanic bands
„Today’s Satanic bands are the vehicle of choice for millions of young people. If they encourage a study of real Satanism, I’m all for them. Now, there are many influential groups who know Satanism and aren’t afraid to espouse it—bands like King Diamond, The Electric Hellfire Club, Acheron, Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails—the list is long. I have no use for the bands who take the Devil’s name, but are too chickenshit to play the Devil’s game. They’re usually too stupid to present any argument concerning Satanism. Instead, when put to the question, they cop out by answering: “Yeah—I was into that shit but not now. Don’t ask me about it because there’s no point in talking about it.” There are Satanic bands and there are “Satanic” bands.“
Anton Szandor LaVey
Jefferson Starship | Our music is intended
"Our music is intended to broaden the generation gap and alienate children from their parents"
Jefferson Starship
Conway Twitty | we are contributing to the moral decline in America
"As a country artist, I'm not proud of a lot of the things in my field. There is no doubt in my mind that we are contributing to the moral decline in America"
Conway Twitty
Craig Chaquico | Rock concerts are the churches Of today
"Rock concerts are the churches Of today.Music puts them on a spiritual plane. All music is God"
Craig Chaquico
Marilyn Manson | we can give ’em our message
"I don't know if anyone has really understood what we're trying to do . . . to lure people in. Once we've got 'em we can give 'em our message."
Marilyn Manson
Billy Joel | subversive sexual revolution
"It made people feel profane. All those things they were saying about rock and roll, it's going to subvert our youth, it's going to make them to want to have sex, it will make them crazy, they were right.
Billy Joel
George Orwell | The further a society moves away from the truth
"The further a society moves away from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it."
George Orwell
Napoleon Bonaparte | There is no more good-natured, but also no more gullible people
"There is no more good-natured, but also no more gullible people than the Germans. No lie can be conceived treacherous enough, the Germans believe it. They follow a slogan which was given to them, to act against their own countrymen, rather than the real enemies of their country."
Napoleon Bonaparte
Jean-Claude Juncker | step by step until there is no turning back
"We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back."
Jean-Claude Juncker
Hannah Arendt | The real goal of totalitarian ideology
“The real goal of totalitarian ideology is not the transformation of the external conditions of human existence and not the revolutionary reorganization of the social order, but the transformation of human nature itself, which, as it is, constantly opposes the totalitarian process. … What is at stake in total domination is really the essence of man.”
Hannah Arendt
Ralph Waldo Trine | The doctor of the future
"The time will come when the work of the physician will not be to treat and attempt to heal the body, but to heal the mind, which in turn will heal the body. The true physician will be a teacher; his or her work will be to keep people well, instead of trying to heal them after sickness."
Ralph Waldo Trine
Emile Zola | If you shut up truth
"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way."
Emile Zola
Gore Vidal | chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice
"At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice."
Gore Vidal
Carl Gustav Jung | No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven
"No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell."
Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Gustav Jung | The world will ask you who you are
"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you."
Carl Gustav Jung
Ignazio Silone | If at a future moment fascism will return
"If at a future moment fascism will return, it will not be so stupid as to say: 'I am fascism.' It will say: 'I am antifascism.'"
Ignazio Silone
Upton Sinclair | American journalism is a class institution
"American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor."
Upton Sinclair
Henry Kissinger | that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy
"that it may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal."
Henry Kissinger
Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Whoever is content with the world
"Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it."
Friedrich Dürrenmatt