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"Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos." Edward Bernays
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"As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented." Edward Bernays
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"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark." Walter Lippmann
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"There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies." Walter Lippmann
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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses." H. L. Mencken
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"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." Henry Louis Mencken
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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage." Henry Louis Mencken
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"A survey of lions has revealed that the majority oppose being kept in cages but would like to be fed on a regular schedule." Unbekannt
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"Mind control isn't hard to understand. If you do what the TV says, the TV is controlling your mind and you're not. 2 billion people just pushed an experimental medicine under their skin, which was never healthy, simply because the TV told them to. That's mind control." Unbekannt
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"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom." Friedrich August von Hayek