Christopher Hitchens Quote: Why Evidence Is Essential
“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
Christopher Hitchens
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Henry Louis Mencken on the Most Dangerous Man to Any Government – A Profound Quote
0 Comments/in Henry Louis Mencken“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.”
Henry Louis Mencken
Charles MacKay Quotes: Fascinating Insights on Mass Psychosis and Groupthink
0 Comments/in Charles MacKay“We see entire societies suddenly fixate their thoughts on a single topic and lose their minds; millions of people are simultaneously gripped by a single delusion until their attention is captured by a new absurdity more fascinating than the first.”
Charles MacKay
George Orwell Quote from 1984: The Chilling Power of the Doublethink Strategy
0 Comments/in George Orwell“Thus, the Party rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it chooses to do this in the name of Socialism. It preaches a contempt for the working class unexampled for centuries past, and it dresses its members in a uniform which was at one time peculiar to manual workers and was adopted for that reason. It systematically undermines the solidarity of the family, and it calls its leader by a name which is a direct appeal to the sentiment of family loyalty. Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of the facts. The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture, and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink. For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely.”
George Orwell
Alexis De Tocqueville Quote on Democracy and Freedom of Opinion – The Truth About the Majority!
0 Comments/in Alexis De Tocqueville“In the United States, the majority takes on the task of supplying a multitude of ready-made opinions, freeing the individual from the necessity of forming his own.”
Alexis De Tocqueville
Augustine of Hippo on time – The profound quote you must understand!
0 Comments/in Augustinus von Hippo“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
Augustinus von Hippo
Philip Dormer Stanhop: The Powerful Mind and Perception Quote You Must Know!
0 Comments/in Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope“A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.”
Philip Dormer Stanhop, Lord Chesterfield
Christian Slater | We live in a kingdom of bullshit
0 Comments/in Christian Slater, Filmzitat“Is any of it real? I mean, look at this, look at it! A world built on fantasy! Synthetic emotions in the form of pills! Psychological warfare in the form of advertising! Mind altering chemicals in the form of food! Brainwashing seminars in the form of media! Controlled isolated bubbles in the form of social networks. Real? You want to talk about reality? We haven’t lived in anything remotely close to it since the turn of the century! We turned it off, took out the batteries, snacked on a bag of GMOs, while we tossed the remnants into the ever expanding dumpster of the human condition. We live in branded houses, trademarked by corporations, built on bipolar numbers, jumping up and down on digital displays, hypnotizing us into the biggest slumber mankind has ever seen. You’d have to dig pretty deep, kiddo, before you can find anything real. We live in a kingdom of bullshit, that even you have lived in for far too long. So don’t tell me about not being real: I’m no less real than the fucking beef patty in your big mac. As far as you are concerned, Elliot, I am very real. We are all together now, whether you like it or not.”
Christian Slater
George Washington | a frightful despotism
0 Comments/in George Washington“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.”
George Washington
Philip K. Dick Quote: Unveiling the Power of Media and the Question of Reality!
0 Comments/in Philip K. Dick“Today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups… So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.”
Philip K. Dick