reply posted on 17-11-2009 @ 07:27 AM by Rigel Kent
Here are a few more quotes from learned folk, some are a tad lengthy but I hope you guys will find them worthy of your time and contemplation.
"There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears,
so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from
them but will rather enjoy it ... [through] brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods."
Aldous Huxley, speech at the California Medical School in San Francisco, 1961
"Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. . . . It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much
more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fitche laid it down that education should aim at destroying
free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than
as their schoolmasters would have wished."
"Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities
consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible."
"Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A
revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton."
Bertrand Russell, "The Impact of Science on Society", 1953, pg 49-50
"The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands
able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion
by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences."
"The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's
central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury
loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by
subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
Carroll Quigley, "Tragedy and Hope", 1966, pg 324
"Our main agenda is to have ALL guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our
task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
Attributed to Sarah Brady, President of Handgun Control, Inc., to Senator Howard Metzenbaum, as quoted in The National Educator, January, 1994, Page
3.
"The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, State and nation. Like
the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self-created screen. It seizes in its long and power(ful) tentacles our executive officers, our
legislative bodies, our schools, our courts, our newspapers, and every agency created for the public protection..."
"To depart from mere generalizations, let me say that at the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller-Standard Oil interests and a small group of
powerful banking houses... One of my first acts as mayor was to pitch out, bag and baggage, from the educational system of our city the Rockefeller
agents and the Gary plan of education to fit the children for the mill and factory."
John Hylan, former mayor of New York City, from a speech in Chicago as quoted in the New York Times, 1922-03-27
"There is no such thing in America as an independent press, unless it is in the country towns. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who
dare to write his honest opinions, and if you did you know beforehand they would never appear in print. I am paid $150 a week for keeping my honest
opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should permit honest opinions to
be printed in one issue of my paper, like Othello, before twenty-four hours, my occupation would be gone.
The business of the New York journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell
his race and his country for his daily bread. You know this and I know it, and what folly is this to be toasting an 'independent press'! We are the
tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping-jacks; they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our
lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
John Swinton, New York Times editor, speech to journalists at the Twilight Club in New York City, 1883-04-12
source: George Seldes, "The Great Quotations", Lyle Stuart, New York, 1960. P. 671.)
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy
and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our
comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor
sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being
insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to
account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers."
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, 1816, "The Writings of Thomas Jefferson" 15:39
PEACE,
RK
The Oxford
English Dictionary has this to say on the matter.
