Tag Archive for: self-deception

"No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient."

Arthur Miller

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."

Hannah Arendt

"They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behavior."

Juri Besmenow

"What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country."

Juri Besmenow

"What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country."

Juri Besmenow

"When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control."

Theodore Dalrymple

"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact."

Henry A. Wallace

"Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders."

Denis Diderot

"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities."

Voltaire

"Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies"

Tupac Shakur

"Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant"

Sokrates

"The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it."

Ludwig von Mises

"Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant."

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Always believe in yourself. No matter who's around you being negative or thrusting negative energy at you, totally block it off. Because whatever you believe, you become."

Michael Jackson

"You are in prison. If you wish to get out of prison, the first thing you must do is realize that you are in prison. If you think you are free, you can't escape."

Georges I. Gurdjieff

"We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right."

George Orwell

"The worst thing I know is subservience or the desire to absolutely submit oneself, this joining in, going along, singing along, marching along, and at the same time falling into an embarrassing euphoria."

Heinrich Böll

"Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you."

Edwin Louis Cole