Adam Weishaupt Quotes

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

It is no longer higher education, it is higher 'indoctrination '

In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

I'm a bit of a propagandist.

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

Dissidents are despicable parasites

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.

Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.

The point of Left-wing propaganda is to make us feel powerless.

Once you get used to censorship, sometimes you self-censor.