Upton Sinclair | American journalism is a class institution
"American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor."
Upton Sinclair
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Noam Chomsky | course of intellectual self defense
"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
"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
Ray McGovern | have in any real sense a free media
"In Washington 52 years now I've seen a lot of change but there's one change the dwarfs all the other changes in importance and that is that we no longer have in any real sense a free media and that is big that could not be bigger"
Ray McGovern
Caitlin Johnstone | power-serving worldview
"The predominant reason mainstream news reporters say things that aren’t true is because in order to be hired by mainstream news outlets, you need to jack your mind into a power-serving worldview that is not based in truth."
Caitlin Johnstone
Erich Maria Remarque | I always thought everyone was against war
"I always thought everyone was against war until I found out there are those who are all for it, especially those who do not have to go there."
Erich Maria Remarque
James H. Barry | Its news-gatherers, I sincerely believe, only obey orders
"You wish to know my "confidential opinion as to the honesty of the Associated Press." My opinion, not confidential, is that it is the damndest, meanest monopoly on the face of the earth--the wet-nurse for all other monopolies. It lies by day, it lies by night, and it lies for the very lust of lying. Its news-gatherers, I sincerely believe, only obey orders."
James H. Barry
Upton Sinclair | whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy
„Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.“
Upton Sinclair
Gustav Kuschinsky | If it is claimed
"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
Blaise Pascal | Truth is so obscure in these times
"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
Blaise Pascal
Carl J. Burckhardt | It is one of the most difficult things
"It is one of the most difficult things that can be imposed on a thinking man, to have to witness the course of a historical process among ignorant people, whose inevitable outcome he has long known with clarity. The time of the error of others, of false hopes, of blindly committed mistakes then becomes very long."
Carl J. Burckhardt
Padmé Amidala | What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists
"What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists, and the Republic has become the very evil we have been fighting to destroy?"
Padmé Amidala
Carl Gustav Jung | People will do anything, no matter how absurd
"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls"
Carl Gustav Jung
Maximilien de Robespierre | The secret of liberty
"The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance."
Maximilien de Robespierre
Curt Goetz | surrounded mostly by idiots
"If you don't realize at a certain age that you are surrounded mostly by idiots, you don't realize it for a certain reason."
Curt Goetz
St. Antony the Great | You are mad; you are not like us
"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
Napoleon Bonaparte | Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
Napoleon Bonapart
Alice Cooper | “It’s like raping them”
"I go out and take them by the throat. It's like raping them. And I don't let them go. They have no chance."
Alice Cooper
George Bernard Shaw | In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat
"In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as one per cent of us could give the physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific."
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw | We are more gullible and superstitious today
"We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality."
George Bernard Shaw
Jimi Hendrix | It’s like shock therapy or a can opener
"The blues are easy to play but not to feel. The background to our music is a spiritual-blues thing. Blues is a part of America. We're making our music into electric church music—a new kind of Bible, not like in a hotel, but a Bible you carry in your hearts, one that will give you a physical feeling. We try to make our music so loose and hard-hitting so that it hits your soul hard enough to make it open. It's like shock therapy or a can opener. Rock is technically blues-based...We want them to realize that our music is just as spiritual as going to church."
Jimi Hendrix
Joost A.M. Meerloo | Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating
"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
"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
"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
"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
Manly P. Hall | when the state governs, he is ruled by fear.
"When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. Before men can live together in harmony and understanding, ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illuminated faith, and fear into love."
Manly P. Hall