From freedom to servitude in one generation
"Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism... A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers."
-- Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963) Author
Source: Forward to 'Brave New World', 1932
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Aldous.Huxley.Quote.D3C8The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses."
-- Albert Einstein
(1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Albert.Einstein.Quote.58C0
"In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers.
In the next age they loved them and praised them.
In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them."
-- Lao-Tzu
[Li Erh] (570-490 BC) 'Old Sage', Father of Taoism
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Lao-Tzu.Quote.1882