Quotes Library

September 3, 2025

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), English novelist, attributed, Jay p.186

How often do you buy the propagandist’s view that your opponent is totally wrong? Evil? Subhuman?

Demonizing the other is very much a growth industry these days, but it has always been an arrow in the quiver of xenophobes.

January 16, 2025

1 year ago

[On Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom] A plan to resist all planning may be better than its opposite, but it belongs to the same style of politics.

November 23, 2025

3 months ago

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

August 12, 2025

7 months ago

You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them.

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