"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.... The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."
-- Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963) Author
Source: forward to Brave New World, 1946 edition
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Aldous.Huxley.Quote.57B0
"A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be
exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which
pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an
aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is
efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by
a natural tendency to one over the body."
-- John Stuart Mill
(1806-1873) English philosopher and economist
Source: On Liberty
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/John.Stuart.Mill.Quote.5789
"I want to make one thing clear. This war against our constitution is not being
fought way off in Madagascar or in Mandalay. It is being fought here—in our
schools, our colleges, our churches, our women’s clubs. It is being fought with
our money, channeled through the State Department. It is being fought
twenty-four hours a day—while we remain asleep. How many of you Senators know
what the UN is doing to change the teaching of the children in your own home
town? The UN is at work there, every day and night, changing the teachers,
changing the teaching materials, changing the very words and tones—changing all
the essential ideas which we imagine our schools are teaching to our young
folks. How in the name of Heaven are we to sit here, approve these programs,
appropriate our own people’s money—for such outrageous “orientation” of our own
children, and of the men and women who teach our children, in this Nation’s
schools?"
-- William Jenner
Senator
Source: Congressional Record (1952)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/William.Jenner.Quote.9EA2
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