Abused By Illusions

And it seems to me perfectly in the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing … a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. — Aldous Huxley, 1959


None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Through clever and constant application of propaganda people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. — Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1923

The real hate crimes are written in the world's holy books for the purpose of pitting one neighbor against another in the name of profit. — Harold Williamson

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. — Woody Allen

Isn't security the freedom from oppression? Let us pray...When the people start to pray, you've got them on their knees! — Barmaid

Given sufficient time, often the only difference between heresy and prophecy has been their sequence in history. — Harold Williamson

Yesterday idolized, today hated and spit upon, tomorrow forgotten and the day after tomorrow promoted to Sainthood. The only salvation is a sense of humor. — Albert Einstein

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. — Bertrand Russell

People are supposed to be obedient producers, do what they're told, and the rest of your life is supposed to be passive consuming. Don't think about things. Don't know about things ... Just do what you're told, pay attention to something else and maximize your consumption. That's the role of the public. — Noam Chomsky

The police are not very effective against criminals, but they are extremely effective at controlling the general public. — Ed Stamm

I've never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. — Brendan Behan

When we cooperate with the police, we are called "good citizens", but when we cooperate with each other, we are called "gangs". — any kid on the street