Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [161-177] of 177 Psycho-Politics quotesPsycho-Politics QuotesPsycho-Politics Previous 20 quotes Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy’s house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded – after all, the cop was protecting us.~ Gerry Spence Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.~ Baruch Spinoza Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this consent of 'the people' exists only in theory. It has no existence in fact. Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.~ Lysander Spooner One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths are a statistic.~ Josef Stalin Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.~ Josef Stalin The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.~ Stendhal The pretence is made that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness, and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely.~ J. A. Stormer The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.~ Thomas Szasz If there are those who think we are to jump immediately into a new world order, actuated by complete understanding and brotherly love, they are doomed to disappointment. If we are ever to approach that time, it will be after patient and persistent effort of long duration. The present international situation of mistrust and fear can only be corrected by a formula of equal status, continuously applied, to every phase of international contacts, until the cobwebs of the old order are brushed out of the minds of the people of all lands.~ Dr. Augustus O. Thomas If you cannot convince them, confuse them.~ Harry S. Truman Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.~ Mark Twain According to the Taranto Principle, the press's failure to hold left-wingers accountable for bad behavior merely encourages the left's bad behavior to the point that its candidates are repellent to ordinary Americans.~ R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. Let the laws be clear, uniform and precise; to interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them.~ Voltaire The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.~ Alice Walker There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.~ Booker T. Washington Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery. The hankering of the mind is irresistible.~ Adam Weishaupt The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate -- shall I say third-rate? -- mind, Karl Marx.~ H. G. Wells Previous 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print