“Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.”
Albert Pike
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
Carl Sagan
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“It may be that the history of terrorism needs to be rewritten. It is no longer known which attacks are the responsibility of terrorists and which are the responsibility of the state.”
Jürgen Trittin
“What’s the difference between a pop star and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist.”
Madonna
“Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.”
Leo Tolstoi
“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
“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
“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.”
Noam Chomsky
“A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.”
James Dresden