Character Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

— Hans Morgenthau

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister…

— Bertrand Russell

“within an established totalitarian regime the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, much less to inform, but rather to humiliate. From this point…

— Anthony Daniels

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

— Noam Chomsky

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

— Mary Douglas

“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of…

— Hannah Arendt

“It remains, as ever, an axiom of conventional wisdom that the use of propaganda as a means of social and ideological control is distinctive…

— Alex Carey

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

— Tom Robbins

“Totalitarian propaganda perfects the techniques of mass propaganda, but it neither invents them nor originates their themes. These were prepared for them by fifty…

— Hannah Arendt

“any significant and lasting transformations of society require significant changes in the moral fiber of individual human beings; for as long as greed, hatred,…

— Dalai Lama XIV

Hannah Arendt in her study of totalitarianism borrowed from Immanuel Kant the concept of radical evil, of evil that's so evil that in the…

— Christopher Hitchens

Freedom that lacks moral truth becomes its own worst enemy.

— George Weigel