12 Quotes that Help Me Understand What Went Wrong.
Everyone knows something went wrong in our country. Few people seem to understand what it was.
A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.
George Orwell
“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them”.
George Orwell
Why is it that so many people that don’t pay attention to the news are so proud of their dedication to ignorance?
Unknown
Governments don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. That is against their interests. They want obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept it.
- George Carlin
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell
THE NINE MOST TEBRIFYING WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARE: 1’M FROM THE GOVERNMENT, AND I’M HERE TO HELP:
Ronald Reagan
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
Voltaire
“What distresses me is to see that human genius has limits and human stupidity none.
Alexandre Dumas Jr.
When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
Dresden James
“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier, failing that, it does nothing.
Isaac Asimov
“Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.”
Aldous Huxley
“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.”
Noam Chomsky