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."
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Hannah Arendt | The real goal of totalitarian ideology
in Hannah Arendt“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
in Ralph Waldo Trine"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
Gore Vidal | chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice
in Gore Vidal"At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice."
Gore Vidal
Ignazio Silone | If at a future moment fascism will return
in François Bondy, Ignazio Silone"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
Noam Chomsky | course of intellectual self defense
in Noam Chomsky"Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy."
Noam Chomsky
Murray Rothbard | The function of the statist ideologists
in Murray Rothbard"The function of the statist ideologists is to weave the false set of Emperor's clothes, to convince the public of a massive double standard: that when the State commits the gravest of high crimes it is really not doing so, but doing something else that is necessary, proper, vital, and even – in former ages – by divine command. The age-old success of the ideologists of the State is perhaps the most gigantic hoax in the history of mankind"
Murray Rothbard
Gustav Kuschinsky | If it is claimed
in Gustav Kuschinsky"If it is claimed that a substance has no side effects, then there is a strong suspicion that it does not have any principal effect."
Gustav Kuschinsky
Maximilien de Robespierre | The secret of liberty
in Maximilien de Robespierre"The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance."
Maximilien de Robespierre
St. Antony the Great | You are mad; you are not like us
in Antonius der Große, St. Antony the Great"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.'"
St. Antony the Great
Joost A.M. Meerloo | Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating
in Joost A.M. Meerloo"Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques."
Joost A.M. Meerloo
Joost A.M. Meerloo | Ready made opinions
in Joost A.M. Meerloo"Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through the press, radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach the nerve cell and implant a fixed pattern in the brain. Consequently, guided public opinion is the result, according to Pavlovian theoreticians, of good propaganda technique, and the polls [are] a verification of the temporary successful action of the Pavlovian machinations on the mind."
Joost A.M. Meerloo
Joost A.M. Meerloo | hammering noises of arguments and propaganda
in Joost A.M. Meerloo"The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don't-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one."
Joost A.M. Meerloo
Arthur Versluis | The New Inquisitions
in Arthur Versluis"Totalitarianism is the modern phenomenon of total centralized state power coupled with the obliteration of individual human rights: in the totalized state, there are those in power, and there are the objectified masses, the victims."
Arthur Versluis
Joost A.M. Meerloo | effective mind control.
in Joost A.M. Meerloo"Confusing a targeted audience is one of the necessary ingredients for effective mind control."
Joost A.M. Meerloo
Joost A.M. Meerloo | master of the mind
in Joost A.M. Meerloo"He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind. Repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity for communicating dissent and opposition. This is the formula for political conditioning of the masses"
Joost A.M. Meerloo
Friedrich Nietzsche | The State is the coldest of all cold monster
in Friedrich Nietzsche"The State is the coldest of all cold monsters, and coldly it tells lies, and this lie drones on from its mouth: 'I, the State, am the people'."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Dr. Rudolph Virchow | If I could live my life over again
in Dr. Rudolph Virchow"If I could live my life over again, I would devote it to proving that germs seek their natural habitat-diseased tissue-rather than being the cause of dead tissue. In other words, mosquitoes seek the stagnant water, but do not cause the pool to become stagnant."
Dr. Rudolph Virchow
Alexander Solschenizyn | We know they are lying. They know they are lying
in Alexander Solschenizyn"We know they are lying. They know they are lying. They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. And still they continue to lie."
Alexander Solschenizyn
Howard Beale | Listen to me! Television is not the truth
in Howard Beale, Peter FinchSo, you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the truth. Television's a goddamn amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business. So if you want the Truth, go to God. Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you're ever gonna find any real truth. But, man, you're never gonna get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you wanna hear. We lie like hell. We'll tell you that Kojak always gets the killer and that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house. And no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry. Just look at your watch. At the end of the hour, he's gonna win. We'll tell you any shit you want to hear. We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night -- all ages, colors, creeds. We're all you know! You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here! You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you -- You dress like the tube. You eat like the tube. You raise your children like the tube. You even think like the tube. This is mass madness, you maniacs! In God's name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion! So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now! Turn them off right now! Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I'm speaking to you now."
Howard Beale
Albert Camus | The welfare of the people
in Albert Camus"The welfare of the people…has always been the alibi of tyrants…giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience."
Albert Camus
Robert Higgs | politicians will create an emergency so they can break the law.
in Robert Higgs"If we let politicians break the law in an emergency, politicians will create an emergency so they can break the law."
Robert Higgs
Graham Hancock | a new era of the Inquisition
in Graham Hancock"If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition."
Graham Hancock
Graham Hancock | I believe we are a species with amnesia
in Graham Hancock"I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions."
Graham Hancock
Aldous Huxley | People will come to love their oppression
in Aldous Huxley"People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think."
Aldous Huxley