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Insinuated tyranny

The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.

Author Greg RavenPosted on September 27, 2011November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories cultureTags Michael Parenti

Perception gap

The enormous gap between what U.S. leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 16, 2009November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories foreign policyTags Michael Parenti

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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