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George Orwell | Until they become conscious
in George Orwell"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
Edward Bernays | If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind
in Edward Bernays"If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it."
Edward Bernays
Eduardo Galeano | We live in the container culture, which despises the content
in Eduardo Galeano"We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content."
Eduardo Galeano
Sir Anthony Hopkins | My philosophy is
in Sir Anthony Hopkins"My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier."
Sir Anthony Hopkins
Bertolt Brecht | Madness becomes invisible
in Bertolt Brecht"Madness becomes invisible when it has reached sufficiently large dimensions."
Bertolt Brecht
Carl Sagan | The bamboozle has captured us
in Carl Sagan"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
Carl Sagan
Will Spencer | an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober
in Will Spencer"If your answer to every failure of government is more government, you are like an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober."
Will Spencer
Robert A. Heinlein | There is no worse tyranny
in Robert A. Heinlein"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
Robert A. Heinlein
Gustave Le Bon | The masses have never thirsted after truth
in Gustave Le Bon"The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will."
Gustave Le Bon
Neil deGrasse Tyson | I’m a fan of what Mark Twain said
in Neil deGrasse Tyson"I'm a fan of what Mark Twain said, he said; Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Billy Corgan | the old deal-with-the devil stuff
in Billy Corgan"The problem is that there’s not enough money in music as a business model. Where in television and vis-a-vis the advertisers and movies, there’s so much money that the controlling forces still circle around the stars in the right way, stars are taken care of better in those industries. In the music industry it’s still very much this exploitative thing, it’s still very much people signing their lives away, the old deal-with-the devil stuff. That is still going on, it’s unbelievable in this day-and-age that this is still going on."
Billy Corgan
Aldous Huxley | the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach
in Aldous Huxley"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."
Aldous Huxley
Aleister Crowley | to delight in dirty and disgusting debauches
in Aleister Crowley"I have exposed myself to every form of disease, accident, and violence. I have driven myself to delight in dirty and disgusting debauches, and to devour human excrement and human flesh. I have mastered every mode of my mind and made myself a mortality more severe than any other in the world. 1000 years from now the world will be sitting in the sunset of Crowlianity"
Aleister Crowley
Friedrich Nietzsche | for what one has forbidden so far as a matter of principle has always been — truth alone.
in Friedrich Nietzsche"for what one has forbidden so far as a matter of principle has always been—truth alone."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Milan Kundera | The first step in liquidating a people
in Milan Kundera"The first step in liquidating a people, is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster."
Milan Kundera
C.S. Lewis | I do not like the pretensions of Government
in Clive Staples Lewis“I do not like the pretensions of Government -- the grounds on which it demands my obedience -- to be pitched too high. I don't like the medicine-man's magical pretensions nor the Bourbon's Divine Right. This is not solely because I disbelieve in magic and in Bossuet's Politique. I believe in God, but I detest theocracy. For every Government consists of mere men and is, strictly viewed, a makeshift; if it adds to its commands 'Thus saith the Lord', it lies, and lies dangerously. On just the same ground I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They 'cash in'. It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science. Perhaps the real scientists may not think much of the tyrants' 'science'-- they didn't think much of Hitler's racial theories or Stalin's biology. But they can be muzzled.”
C.S. Lewis
Richard P. Feynman | To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven
in Richard P. Feynman"To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science."
Richard P. Feynman
André Gide | It is better to be hated for what you are
in André Gide, Bette Davis, Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
André Gide
Julius Evola | The inner victory against the deepest forces
in Julius Evola"The inner victory against the deepest forces that surface in one’s consciousness during times of tension and mortal danger is a triumph in an external sense, but it is also the sign of a victory of the spirit against itself"
Julius Evola
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce | ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege
in Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce"ELECTOR, n. One who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice."
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
Terence McKenna | We are at war with our own nature
in Terence McKenna"We are, literally, a schizophrenic species. We are at war with our own nature"
Terence McKenna