Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-06-08 Jun 8, 2021The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.~ George OrwellThe urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it.~ H. L. MenckenPolitical correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to. ~ Theodore Dalrymple Jun 7, 2021The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.~ Alexis de TocquevilleThose who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed.~ Arthur S. MillerYou can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, and that's good enough.~ Dr. Edwin Vieira Jun 4, 2021Appearances often are deceiving.~ AesopBecause of what appears to be a lawful command on the surface, many Citizens, because of their respect for what appears to be law, are cunningly coerced into waiving their rights due to ignorance.~ United States Supreme CourtThe proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.~ Adam Smith Jun 3, 2021The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that’s happened in American political life.~ John SilberWhen you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroThe smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.~ Noam Chomsky Jun 2, 2021The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.~ Georg Christoph LichtenbergThe purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.~ Joan RobinsonThe study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent.~ John Kenneth Galbraith Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print