“If in order to keep the wheels turning you have to deafen ears with propaganda, crack the whip of Terror, and keep pushing people around, then you haven't got a machine civilization no matter how numerous and ingenious your machines.”

—  Eric Hoffer

Source: The Ordeal of Change (1963), Ch. 5: "The Readiness to Work"

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American philosopher 1898–1983

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