People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
… the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled.
The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is – just be a little kinder.
Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
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