Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-02-14 Feb 14, 2023Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.~ Baruch SpinozaThe aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues, and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else...Their purpose, in brief, is to make docile and patriotic citizens, to pile up majorities, and to make John Doe and Richard Doe as nearly alike, in their everyday reactions and ways of thinking, as possible.~ H. L. MenckenIn 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college.~ Joseph Sobran Feb 13, 2023In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.~ Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThus corporations finally claimed the full rights enjoyed by individual citizens while being exempted from many of the responsibilities and liabilities of citizenship. Furthermore, in being guaranteed the same right to free speech as individual citizens, they achieved, in the words of Paul Hawken, 'precisely what the Bill of Rights was intended to prevent: domination of public thought and discourse.' The subsequent claim by corporations that they have the same right as any individual to influence the government in their own interest pits the individual citizen against the vast financial and communications resources of the corporation and mocks the constitutional intent that all citizens have an equal voice in the political debates surrounding important issues.~ David C. KortenDon’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.~ George Orwell Feb 10, 2023Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.~ Germaine GreerThe shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.~ StendhalIt is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.~ H. L. Mencken Feb 9, 2023Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few.~ David HumeThe conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.~ Edward L. BernaysAt any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to state this or that or the other, but it is “not done”… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.~ George Orwell Feb 8, 2023For 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 ChomskyNo one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.~ Alan BullockThe more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.~ Dr. Joseph Mengele Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print