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    Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. Many grown-ups will obstinately persist, if only now and then, in composing small strings of sentences in their heads and achieving at least momentary logic. This probably cannot be prevented, but we have learned how to minimize the consequences by arranging that such grown-ups will be unable to pursue that logic very far. If they were at home in the technology of writing, there's no telling how much social disorder they would cause by thinking things out at length.Our schools have chosen to cut this danger off as close to the root as possible, thus taking measures to preclude not only the birth of thought but its conception. They give the pill to even the youngest children, but just to be on the safe side, they give it to everybody else, too, especially all would-be schoolteachers.

    by Richard Mitchell Found in Psychological subjects Quotes,
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives read more

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

by Eric Hoffer Found in: Psychological subjects Quotes,
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Brain-washing starts in the cradle.

Brain-washing starts in the cradle.

by Arthur Koestler Found in: Psychological subjects Quotes,
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The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.

The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.

by Eric Hoffer Found in: Psychological subjects Quotes,
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The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born read more

The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.

by Eric Hoffer Found in: Psychological subjects Quotes,
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Power concedes nothing without a demand.

Power concedes nothing without a demand.

by Frederick Douglass Found in: Psychological subjects Quotes,
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The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. read more

The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields...With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.

by Eric Hoffer Found in: Psychological subjects Quotes,
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

by Baruch Spinoza Found in: Psychological subjects Quotes,
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Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you read more

Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

by Richard Nixon Found in: Psychological subjects Quotes,
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In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding read more

In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas.

by Ludwig Von Mises Found in: Psychological subjects Quotes,
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