Tag Archive for: Philosophy

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Edward L. Bernays | the manipulation of public opinion

"No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and cliches and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders."

Edward L. Bernays

Viktor Schauberger | The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound

"The majority believes that everything hard to comprehend must be very profound. This is incorrect. What is hard to understand is what is immature, unclear and often false. The highest wisdom is simple and passes through the brain directly into the heart"

Viktor Schauberger

Friedrich August von Hayek | voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant

"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom."

Friedrich August von Hayek

Edward L. Bernays | Mindless Conformity

"Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man's rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. It may seem an exaggeration to say that the American public gets most of its ideas in this wholesale fashion. The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine."

Edward L. Bernays

Hannah Arendt | The power of independent thinking

"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want. The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."

Hannah Arendt

Susan Sontag | Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear

"Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material."

Susan Sontag

The combination of the silence of the masses and the sometimes overwhelming volume

"The combination of the silence of the masses and the sometimes overwhelming volume of this greatest global crime of all time in my mind is, in its relentless daily presence, the most eerie and surreal feeling I have ever experienced."

Unknown

Voltaire | It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere

"It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere."

Voltaire

Heiner Geißler | The fame of some contemporaries

"The fame of some contemporaries is linked to the stupidity of their admirers."

Heiner Geißler |

Yuval Noah Harari | In a world flooded with irrelevant information

"In a world flooded with irrelevant information, clarity is power."

Yuval Noah Harari

William Shakespeare | All the world’s a stage

"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances"

William Shakespeare

Friedrich Nietzsche | Insanity is a rare thing in individuals

"Insanity is a rare thing in individuals, but the rule in groups, parties, peoples and times."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Voltaire | I disapprove of what you say

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

Voltaire

Charles Bukowski | How in the hell could a man enjoy

"How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?"

Charles Bukowski

Gabriel Laub | Die hartnäckigsten Anhänger der Sklaverei

"The most stubborn supporters of slavery were not the slave owners, but the privileged slaves."

Gabriel Laub

Gabriel Laub | The slave does not want to be free. He wants to become a slave master

"The slave does not want to be free. He wants to become a slave master."

Gabriel Laub