Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision.
Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.
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.
There is absolutely no solidarity in the West towards its own victims, and the recent 'refugee crises' is direct proof of it.
Milo refreshed Rae's drink and said, Talk to her. You need to get it off your chest. " Then Milo turned to me and said, "Why don't you try a more subtle approach. " "I demand you tell me your troubles," I said to my sister. "You're not as funny as you think you are," Rae replied.
In the beginning it was just about the business - now it's about the brand.
God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.