Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-02-09 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 Feb 7, 2023School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.~ Ivan IllichGovernment schools will teach children that government is wonderful.~ Neal BoortzSchools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.~ Sir Winston Churchill Feb 6, 2023Our 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 SpoonerThe worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.~ Michael ParentiThere is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau Feb 3, 2023When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.~ Thomas SowellWhen all think alike, no one is thinking very much.~ Walter LippmannA truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent.~ William Blake Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print