Occupation: Writer Birth: July 26, 1894 Death: November 22, 1963
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free..
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left..
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think..
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored..
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you..
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human..
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence..
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to de….
Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few..
Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice..
This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more b….
The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a s….
Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . .….
Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies pe….
The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so wel….
Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue..
... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provide….
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears….
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It cons….
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity..
Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched..