The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.
It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it.
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