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Carl 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

Aldous Huxley Quote: Revealing the Perfect Dictatorship as a Deceptive Democracy

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“The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, slaves would love their servitude.”

Aldous Huxley

Gustav Heinemann Quotes: Why a Free State Depends on Strong Gun Laws

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“A state is only as free as its gun laws”

Gustav Heinemann

George Orwell Quote: How Control Over the Masses Works – The Proles in 1984

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“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern…Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”

George Orwell

Vilfredo Pareto Quotes: The Truth About Violence and Oligarchy in Governments

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“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

Adolf Hitler Quote: The Importance of Disarming to Control a Nation

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“To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.”

Adolf Hitler

Thomas Sowell on Socialism: Why Its Policies Always Fail!

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“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. Even countries that were once more prosperous than their neighbors have found themselves much poorer than their neighbors after just one generation of socialistic policies.”

Thomas Sowell

Marshall McLuhan on the Power of Advertising: Incredible Insights into Social Data Analysis

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“No group of sociologists can approximate the ad teams in the gathering and processing of exploitable social data. The ad teams have billions to spend annually on research and testing of reactions, and their products are magnificent accumulations of material about the shared experience and feelings of the entire community.”

Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan Quote on the Power of Publicity – How to Manage Perception!

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“Publicity is the deliberate attempt to manage the public’s perception of a subject. The subjects of publicity include people (for example, politicians and performing artists), goods and services, organizations of all kinds, and works of art or entertainment.”

Marshall McLuhan

Hannah Arendt on the Dangerous Argument of the Lesser Evil – A Moral Warning

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“In their moral justification, the argument of the lesser evil has played a prominent role. If you are confronted with two evils, the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. Its weakness has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil.[….] Acceptance of the lesser evil is deliberately used to accustom officials, as well as the population at large, to accept the evil itself.”

Hannah Arendt