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Social Control Quotes by Famous Authors

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The question of the next generation will not be one

1. “The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.”

Freedom, Servitude, Future, Social Control, Human Manipulation, Dystopian Vision

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual

2. “The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.”

Totalitarianism, Freedom, Human Nature, Social Control, Political Systems, Psychological Insight

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth

3. “A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.”

Orson Scott Card

Truth, Authority, Propaganda, Politics, Power, Social Control

The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are

4. “The only people who ever prize purity of ignorance are those who profit from a monopoly on knowledge.”

Orson Scott Card

Ignorance, Knowledge, Power, Profit, Intellectual Monopoly, Social Control

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain

5. “The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.”

Public Opinion, Social Control, Political Power, Crowd Behavior, Public Influence, Authority Struggle

Politics and church are the same They keep the people

6. “Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.”

Politics Truth, Church Truth, Social Control, Ignorance Fought, Awareness Needed, Change Sought

Excess of liberty whether it lies in state or individuals

7. “Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.”

Plato

Liberty Slavery, Political Freedom, Social Control, Freedom Limits, Balance Principle

Those who tell the stories rule society

8. “Those who tell the stories rule society.”

Plato

Storytelling And Power, Social Control, Cultural Influence, Narratives And Society, Leadership Insight

And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because

9. “And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white.”

Racial Ideology, Human Destruction, Social Control, Identity Crisis, Oppression, Cultural Collapse