Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2016-10-18 Oct 18, 2016The party ... must not become a servant of the masses, but their master. ... The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.~ Adolf HitlerAcademies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.~ Baruch SpinozaI think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology. ...It's importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda ...Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated.~ Bertrand Russell Oct 17, 2016Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.~ Joseph Paul GoebbelsFor those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.~ Noam ChomskyThe battle for the world is the battle for definitions.~ Thomas Szasz Oct 14, 2016Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?~ William Lloyd GarrisonWise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country.~ Alexander HamiltonWhen a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.~ Thomas Jefferson Oct 13, 2016By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.~ Albert EinsteinHe who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.~ Henry GeorgeYou must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.~ Robert E. Lee Oct 12, 2016Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.~ Sir Leslie StephenThere is no inherent misdirection in holding unorthodox views. Indeed, the autonomous individual, free from compulsive conformance and unquestioned assumptions, is likely to be unorthodox... They stimulate the climate of controversy without which political democracy becomes an empty formalism.~ Snell Putney Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print