Adam Weishaupt Quotes

We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behaviour, show, condescention, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

Any man who tells the people what they want to hear is usually pretty popular

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

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

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

I'm a bit of a propagandist.

In a democracy, as a matter of course, every effort is made to seize upon and create publick opinion, which is, substantially, securing power.

Once a person insists on how you are to think he immediately begins to insist on how you are to behave.

We must form men so that they can only will what we wish them to will.

Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals we dare not present to them.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.

The media is so powerful.

In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of his indoctrinators.

If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.

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

I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated.

The first foundation for the creation of authority is always provided by popularity.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

If I was to stop making music tomorrow doesn't mean suddenly there is this gap. You don't get elected. The people decide where you are. Whether I'm here or not, if they want you to be at the top then the people will move me out the way.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

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

The most effective way to close down the human mind and to manipulate its sense of self is to program into it some form of dogma. A dogma will always vehemently defend itself from other information and repel any alternative opinion which contradicts its narrow, solidified view. Dogmas become a person's sense of security and means of retaining power, and humanity tends to cling to both until its knuckles turn white. Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy.

Maintain a sense of humor. People who take themselves too seriously are power-crazy. If they win it will be haircuts for all. Beware of power freaks.

Get them while they're young and bend their minds.