Truth

"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

"Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal." Friedrich Nietzsche

"Universal suffrage did not give the masses the right to decide, but to approve the decision of one elite or another." José Ortega y Gasset

"The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know." Noam Chomsky

"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves." James Dresden

"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

"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth." Mahatma Gandhi

"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." Alfred Tennyson

"Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world." Russell Jacoby

"Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion." Langston Hughes

"Half-truths are the devil's IOUs." Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Half-truths can be more pernicious than outright falsehoods." Wendy Lesser

"Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther." Hyman George Rickover

"There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan." Martin Luther King Jr.