Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.
The news and the truth are not the same thing.
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.
It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?
The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about.
When all think alike, then no one is thinking
There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.
We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.
Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.
Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.
We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.
When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
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