Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2016-06-27 Jun 27, 2016People everywhere confuse, What they read in newspapers with news.~ A. J. LieblingOur job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.~ Richard SalantThe man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors~ Thomas Jefferson Jun 24, 2016The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.~ Josh BillingsThe most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.~ Alice WalkerThe power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological “atmosphere” or “climate” favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.~ Arthur Balfour Jun 23, 2016Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism... A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.~ Aldous HuxleyThe modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of the people.~ David EdwardsThe Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.~ William Colby Jun 22, 2016Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.~ Frances WrightMost of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.~ Isabel PatersonThe main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Jun 21, 2016Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.~ James MadisonPolitical language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidarity to pure wind.~ George OrwellPropaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.~ Harold Evans Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print