Henry Ford: A Business That Makes Nothing But Money
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
Henry Ford
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Motivational Quote by Henry Ford on Resistance
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
Henry Ford
Edward Bernays on Media, Opinion, and Invisible Government
“We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.”
Edward Bernays
George Orwell on Totalitarianism and Historical Revision
“A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.”
George Orwell
George Orwell on Power and Control
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
George Orwell
Deliberate Deception and Misinformation – George Orwell on Propaganda
“The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt…. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.”
George Orwell
Political Language and Lies – George Orwell on Manipulation
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible… Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness… Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.”
George Orwell
Insight on Ancient Civilizations – Walter Lippmann
“There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.”
Walter Lippmann
There are no facts – Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Walter Lippmann Quote on Public Opinion
“The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.”
Walter Lippmann