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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (32473)6/28/2010 8:13:48 AM
From: fred woodall1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 103300
 
He will be able to obtain the support of all the docile and gullible, who have no strong convictions of their own but are prepared to accept a ready-made system of values if it is only drummed into their ears sufficiently loudly and frequently. It will be those whose vague and imperfectly formed ideas are easily swayed and whose passions and emotions are readily aroused who will thus swell the ranks of the totalitarian party.

It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be silenced.

F. A. Hayek
The Road to Serfdom