Notable Quotable 122

Oct 11, 2023

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

- H. L. Mencken

Don’t be impressed by money, followers, degrees and titles. Be impressed by kindness, integrity, humility and generosity.

- Anonymous

The media in the United States effectively represents the interests of corporate America, and ... the media elite are the watchdogs of what constitutes acceptable ideological messages, the parameters of news and information content, and the general use of media resources.

- Peter Phillips, Project Censored, 1998

It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable, and to propagandize and teach the American people to hate, so we will let the Establishment spend any amount of money on arms.

- John Stockwell, former CIA official and author

Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society -- one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security.

- Michael Lerner, journalist

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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

- Friederich Nietzsche

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

- Edward Abbey

Question the media and you're a conspiracy kook. Criticize the government and you're a Russian agent. Oppose war and you're anti-American. Defend Palestinians and you're an anti-Semite.

- Caitlin Johnstone

There is no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard.

- Arundhati Roy

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

- H L Mencken