Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkTaxes – Price of Civilization or Political Playground? – Thomas Sowell
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"Someone once said that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. That may have been true when he said it, but today taxes are mostly the price we pay so that politicians can play Santa Claus and get reelected."
Thomas Sowell
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkQuote on Democracy and Information by Aldous Huxley
"The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information."
Aldous Huxley
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkGore Vidal Quote on Modern Dictatorship – Uncover the Truth About Politics & Media!
"What is a president, then? He is the mouthpiece of the corporations - and nothing else. [....] We are no longer a democracy. We gave up our constitution long ago. [....] The modern dictatorship doesn't come with brown or black uniforms. We do it with entertainment, with television, with fun, fun. And an education that dumbs down."
Gore Vidal
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkGeneral Aladeen Quote: The Harsh Reality of Dictatorial Power
"Why are you guys so anti-dictators? Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let 1% of the people have all the nation's wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes. And bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education. Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could lie about why you go to war. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group, and no one would complain. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests."
General Aladeen
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkNoam Chomsky Quote: Why Propaganda Is Deadly in Democracies!
"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
Noam Chomsky
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkFreedom and Choice – Quote by Harry Browne
"Whatever the issue, let freedom offer us a hundred choices, instead of having government force one answer on everyone."
Harry Browne
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkCaroll Quigley on Politics: Why Parties Should Be Almost Identical!
"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies."
Caroll Quigley
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkBertrand Russell on the Truth Behind Educational Systems – Shocking Revelation!
"Educational systems have been developed not to impart genuine knowledge but to make the people docile to the will of the rulers. Without a sophisticated system of deception in schools, it would be impossible to maintain the appearance of democracy. It is not desired that ordinary citizens think for themselves. Because it is believed that people who think for themselves are difficult to handle. Only the elites are supposed to think. The rest are supposed to obey and follow their leaders, like a herd of mutton. This doctrine has corrupted all state education systems from the ground up, even in democracies."
Bertrand Russell
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkHans Herbert von Arnim on the Hidden Powers of the Political Class – Eye-Opening Insights!
"The political class is supported by the many-thousand-voiced chorus of those who are committed to it by the already accomplished or still hoped-for awarding of offices and dignities. The proof of deficiencies is made difficult at the outset by the fact that there is an abundance of thought patterns (paradigms), formulas and theories that support the basic ideological thesis of the quasi-automatic functioning of the system. They seek to close the gap between norm and reality not by improving reality, but by interpreting the norm laxly or by obfuscating reality. Serving the cause of legitimizing power despite its democratic shortcomings"
Hans Herbert von Arnim
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkRudolf Augstein Quote: Why Trust in Democracy Matters – The Truth About Democracy!
"It does not really matter whether democracy functions according to its original idea but rather that it is seen as functional by the population."
Rudolf Augstein
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkJosé Ortega y Gasset Quote: The True Power Behind Universal Suffrage Revealed!
"Universal suffrage did not give the masses the right to decide, but to approve the decision of one elite or another."
José Ortega y Gasset
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkCarl Sagan Quote: Why Scientific Literacy Saves Our Democracy!
"We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it? ... Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
Carl Sagan
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkVilfredo Pareto Quotes: The Truth About Violence and Oligarchy in Governments
"All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligarchy that governs, finding ways to give to 'the will of the people' the expression which the few desire."
Vilfredo Pareto
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkWalter Ulbricht Quote: The True Power Behind Apparent Democracy Revealed!
"it must look democratic but we must control everything"
Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht
Copyright © yoice.net – Quote ArtworkWalter Lippmann Quotes on Democracy, Propaganda & Public Opinion – Understand the Revolution!
"That the manufacture of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process by which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain enough. . . . as a result of psychological research, coupled with the modern means of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than any shifting of economic power. . . . Under the impact of propaganda, not necessarily in the sinister meaning of the word alone, the old constants of our thinking have become variables. It is no longer possible, for example, to believe in the original dogma of democracy; that the knowledge needed for the management of human affairs comes up spontaneously from the human heart. Where we act on that theory we expose ourselves to self-deception, and to forms of persuasion that we cannot verify. It has been demonstrated that we cannot rely upon intuition, conscience, or the accidents of casual opinion if we are to deal with the world beyond our reach."
Walter Lippmann