Mephisto,
Re: Bush destroys our civil liberties and people don't care.
They think you have to live like this because of terrorism.
Exactly. The people are just too simple to understand what they are faced with.
I've collected a lot of quotes from one of the 20th Century's greatest tyrants. It's very eerie how many of this man's insights seem to be being applied by George Bush today.....
HITLER, Adolf:
On Fear: "Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death." --Adolf Hitler
On the BIG LIE TECHNIQUE: "The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies, but would be ashamed to tell big lies." -- Adolf Hitler
On History: "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth." -- Adolf Hitler
On Intuition: "In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason." -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 173
On Propaganda: "All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise." -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1923
On Propaganda: "All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Consequently, the greater the mass it is intended to reach, the lower its purely intellectual level will have to be." -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 180
On Propaganda: "The efficiency of the truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy." -- Adolf Hitler
On Public's Ignorance: "What good fortune for those in power that people do not think." -- Adolf Hitler
On Public's Ignorance: "The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence 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..." -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 180-181.
"It... gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them." Adolf Hitler
On Religion: "I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator."
-- Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 46
On Religion: "This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief." -- Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf, p.152
On Religion: "The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its own doctrine." -- Adolph Hitler, "Mein Kampf" Vol. 1 Chapter 12
On the Struggle: "We shall not capitulate... no never. We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us... a world in flames." -- Adolf Hitler |
