Thought Inspiring Quotes

“Are you here to enlighten or discourage?”

~Prince

“Every burned book enlightens the world.”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When the truth gets buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround… And once again the truth is found.”

~George Harrison

“Blue lives matter.
What? Was he born a police?
That is not a blue life.
That’s a blue suit. 
If you don’t like it, take that suit off and find a new job.
Because, I’m going to tell you right now,
If I could quit being black today, I’d be out the game.”

~Dave Chappelle

“Intelligence is what you use when you don’t know what to do.”

~Jean Piaget

“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.”

~Jean Piaget

“I could not think without writing.”

~Jean Piaget

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

~Noam Chomsky

“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”

~Adolf Hitler

“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.”

~Noam Chomsky

“It’s not radical Islam that worries the US — it’s independence”

~Noam Chomsky

“That’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody’s going to be against, and everybody’s going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything.”

~Noam Chomsky

“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”

~Noam Chomsky

“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”

~Noam Chomsky

“I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.”

~Noam Chomsky

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”

~Mother Teresa

“…the Bible is probably the most genocidal book in the literary canon.”

~Noam Chomsky

“Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that’s where the light is. It has no other choice.”

~Noam Chomsky

“Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.”

~Criss Jami

I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.

~Keanu Reeves

“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”

~Noam Chomsky

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is more important.

~Keanu Reeves

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

~Keanu Reeves

“News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.”

~Bill Moyers

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

~ George Orwell

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”

~Adolf Hitler

“What luck for rulers that men do not think.”

~Adolf Hitler

“By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.”

~Adolf Hitler

“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.”

~Adolf Hitler

“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”

~Adolf Hitler

“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty.”

~Adolf Hitler