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Ich habe bestimmte Regeln, nach denen ich lebe. Meine erste Regel: Ich glaube nichts, was mir die Regierung sagt. - George Carlin
In the constrained vision, where man cannot directly create social results but only social processes, it is as characteristics of those processes that freedom, justice, power, and equality have significance.
A Conflict of Visions
Thomas Sowell
The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt
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