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“Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.”
― The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on the Art of Living
― The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on the Art of Living
“We are nearly complete in our evolution from Lewis and Clark into Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam.”
― That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
― That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
“What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world, is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience of the ever-growing masses of our century”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
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