the quality of men who are selected by these modern democratic methods of adult franchise gradually deteriorates because of lack of thinking and the noise of propaganda . . . He [the voter] reacts to sound and to the din, he reacts to
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“It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”
― 1984
― 1984
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Most sociopolitical hierarchies lack a logical or biological basis – they are nothing but the perpetuation of chance events supported by myths.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Instruction in world history in the so-called high schools is even today in a very sorry condition. Few teachers understand that the study of history can never be to learn historical dates and events by heart and recite them by rote; that what matters is not whether the child knows exactly when this battle or that was fought, when a general was born, or even when a monarch (usually a very insignificant one) came into the crown of his forefathers. No, by the living God, this is very unimportant. To 'learn' history means to seek and find the forces which are the causes leading to those effects which we subsequently perceive as historical events.”
― Mein Kampf
― Mein Kampf
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