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  • The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulp... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Before one may scare the plain people one must first have a firm understanding of the bugaboos that most facilely alarm them. One must study the schemes that have served to do it i... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will ... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • ...the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imagi... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? <span class='nobr'></span>
  • There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve. This is true even of the piou... <span class='nobr'></span>
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulp...

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