The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." - George Orwell, 1984“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is, contempt prior to examination.” - William Paley
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. " - Thomas Jefferson
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise." - Adolf Hitler
"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed." - Adolf Hitler
"Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election." - Adolf Hitler
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler
"Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because most people don't want to admit they don't have the courage to do anything about it. Most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all." - Michael Rivero"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"There are three different kinds of brains, the one understands things unassisted, the other understands things when shown by others, and the third understands neither alone nor with the explanations of others. The first kind is most excellent, the second kind also excellent, but the third useless." - Niccolo Machiavelli
"Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think." — Thomas A. Edison
"Most people would rather die than think: many do."
- Bertrand Russell
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