“It's very important for institutions of concentrated power to keep people alone and isolated: that way they're ineffective, they can't defend themselves against indoctrination, they can't even figure out what they think.”
Source: Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
“When enough people possess the same belief, that belief automatically turns into an irrefutable truth in the eyes of the people, even if that belief happens to be the most atrocious lie of all times.”
Source: Every Generation Needs Caretakers: The Gospel of Patriotism
“I am not here to entertain you. I am here to make you think.”
“All our current media concerns have in French the suffix '-aire': identitaire (issues of identity), sanitaire (health concerns), securitaire ('law and order'), humanitaire (humanitarianism). The whole lot being publicitaire (promotional). There is in this suffix something which quite aptly characterizes our culture as funerarium of received ideas and single-track thinking.”
Source: Cool Memories IV, 1995-2000
“Fight for the alive future, not for a dead past.”
Source: Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
“I have said before that one of these days, someone will read the Bible for the first time, believe it, and act on it with a daring, simple faith. Then we long-time believers will bow in shame crying, 'Lord, help our unbelief.”
Source: Revival Praying: An Urgent and Powerful Message for the Family of Christ
“Fall of reason is fall of civilization.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“Ye had not yet sought yourselves; then did ye find me. So do all believers; therefore all belief is of so little account.
Now do I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only when ye have all denied me, will I return unto you.
Verily, with other eyes, my brethren, shall I then seek my lost ones; with another love shall I then love you.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“The best teachers I’ve met are the ones who use life experiences and explorative practices in order to expand minds. Without free-thinking, unconventional educators, I would never have been able to succeed.”
Source: Homeschooling on a Budget
“The majority never has right on its side. Never I say! That is one of the social lies that a free, thinking man is bound to rebel against. Who makes up the majority in any given country? Is it the wise men or the fools? I think we must agree that the fools are in a terrible overwhelming majority, all the wide world over. But, damn it, it can surely never be right that the stupid should rule over the clever! (An Enemy of the People, act 4)”
Source: Oxford Ibsen Vol 6: An Enemy of the People / The Wild Duck / Rosmersholm