“The real goal of totalitarian ideology is not the transformation of the external conditions of human existence and not the revolutionary reorganization of the social order, but the transformation of human nature itself, which, as it is, constantly opposes the totalitarian process. … What is at stake in total domination is really the essence of man.”
Hannah Arendt
“At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.”
Gore Vidal
“If at a future moment fascism will return, it will not be so stupid as to say: ‘I am fascism.’ It will say: ‘I am antifascism.'”
Ignazio Silone
“American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.”
Upton Sinclair
“Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.”
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
“Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for meaningful democracy.”
Noam Chomsky
“The function of the statist ideologists is to weave the false set of Emperor’s clothes, to convince the public of a massive double standard: that when the State commits the gravest of high crimes it is really not doing so, but doing something else that is necessary, proper, vital, and even – in former ages – by divine command. The age-old success of the ideologists of the State is perhaps the most gigantic hoax in the history of mankind”
Murray Rothbard
“In Washington 52 years now I’ve seen a lot of change but there’s one change the dwarfs all the other changes in importance and that is that we no longer have in any real sense a free media and that is big that could not be bigger”
Ray McGovern
“The predominant reason mainstream news reporters say things that aren’t true is because in order to be hired by mainstream news outlets, you need to jack your mind into a power-serving worldview that is not based in truth.”
Caitlin Johnstone