How Do You Kill 11 Million People? Why The Truth Matters More Than You Think Quotes

“But did you know that during the past quarter century, no presidential election has been won by more than ten million ballots cast? Yet every federal election during the same time period had at least one hundred million people of voting age who did not bother to vote!”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People? Why The Truth Matters More Than You Think

“Does adversity build character? . . . It does not. Almost all people can stand adversity of one sort or another. If you want to test a person’s character, give him power.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“Somehow, for the most part, our parents and grandparents managed to disagree with their neighbors and still remain neighborly. And they usually did it from their front porches. Today, most of us don’t even have front porches. We have retreated to the backyard, where a single opinion can be isolated and enforced by a privacy fence.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“It is a fact that fewer than 10 percent of Germany’s population of 79.7 million people actively worked or campaigned to bring about Hitler’s change.17 Even at the height of its power in 1945, the Nazi political party boasted only 8.5 million members.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“the danger to America is not a single politician with ill intent. Or even a group of them. The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“The difference in the past and history is that the past is set in stone history is just an account from the guy with the strongest axe”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People? Why The Truth Matters More Than You Think

“You see, the danger to America is not a single politician with ill intent. Or even a group of them. The most dangerous thing any nation faces is a citizenry capable of trusting a liar to lead them.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“In the long run, it is much easier to undo the policies of crooked leadership than to restore common sense and wisdom to a deceived population willing to elect such a leader in the first place. Any country can survive having chosen a fool as their leader. But history has shown time and again that a nation of fools is surely doomed.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“Sometime during my study of the Dark Ages and Middle Ages, I uncovered an odd paradox that exists in our minds about time gone by. It is a difference most people don’t discern between history and the past. Simply stated, the past is what is real and true, while history is merely what someone recorded. If you don’t think there is a difference, experience an event in person and then read about it in the newspaper the next day, after witnesses have been interviewed. It might be shocking for many of us to realize that what we know as “history” can actually be a total fabrication, created from the imagination of someone with an ax to grind. Or perhaps, and it certainly happened in the Middle Ages, history was simply recorded by the man with the sharpest ax.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“It doesn’t take many people to lead a nation in a direction that has serious repercussions on the liberty of others. Indeed, most will agree that we have already given up liberties for various reasons, and we may never get them back. Under certain circumstances, things can take a very bad turn very rapidly. This cycle has repeated itself with many societies throughout history. Despite the solid foundation of our culture and political system, America is not immune.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“9. How can we tell if a politician is telling the truth? Is there a way to know for sure? You may remember the old joke: “How do you know if a politician is lying? If he’s moving his lips.” It’s not that funny anymore, is it? Obviously, there is no certain way to know at the moment something is said. But remember this: past performance serves to reveal future behavior. A person who has exhibited a pattern of lying is a liar.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“For you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” Those are probably the most famous words ever spoken on the subject of truth. Most of us accept that particular sentence at face value. It certainly resonates with our spirit. It just feels right. But what does it mean, really? And have you ever contemplated the meaning that comes to light by inverting this principle? If it is correct that “you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free,” then is it possible that if you don’t know the truth, its absence can place you in bondage?”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“Why do these civilizations all seem to follow the same identifiable sequence—from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, and finally from dependence back into bondage?”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“By the way, have you ever noticed that if any one of us lies to them, it is a felony? But if any one of them lies to us, it is considered politics.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“According to record, what Hitler actually said in his speeches depended very much upon the audience. In agricultural areas, he pledged tax cuts for farmers and new laws to protect food prices. In working-class neighborhoods, he talked about redistribution of wealth and attacked the high profits generated by business owners. When he appeared before financiers or captains of industry, Hitler focused on his plans to destroy communism and reduce the power of the trade unions.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“History shows that any people who are sheeplike in following their leadership (so long as their personal self-interests are satisfied) may one day awaken to find that their nation has changed in dramatic ways.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“If it is correct that “you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free,” then is it possible that if you don’t know the truth, its absence can place you in bondage?”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think

“Today, most people are unaware that of the eleven million people exterminated, five million were not even Jewish. In Dachau, one of the largest and most infamous of all concentration camps, only a third of the population was Jewish.”
― Andy Andrews, How Do You Kill 11 Million People?: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think