Source: Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994, What Uncle Sam Really Wants, 1993, p. 69
Context: Sectors of the doctrinal system serve to divert the unwashed masses and reinforce the basic social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority, the overriding virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for others, fear of real or imagined enemies, etc. The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable -- if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it.
Source: Horns
p, 125
Other writings, The Paradoxes of Legal Science (1928)
“No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.”
1963, American University speech
1950s, Conquering Self-centeredness (1957)
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 267
“Socialism is submission of the masochistic masses to the will of the sadistic elites.”
Source: From a "Race of Masters" to a "Master Race": 1948 to 1848
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 13
Context: Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
2010s, 2015, Speech on (20 July 2015)
