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Title: H.L. Mencken Quote
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URL Source: http://whatreallyhappened.com/
Published: Aug 11, 2013
Author: staff
Post Date: 2013-08-11 13:03:35 by Horse
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Views: 152
Comments: 2

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

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#1. To: Horse (#0)

Tons of stuff at URL.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2013-08-11   15:08:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

I like to think of domesticated humanity as being similar to a herd of gazelles on the african plains.

Keep them in a constant state of agitation and at a seconds notice, with the proper stimulus, you can move them all any direction you want.

Buzzard  posted on  2013-08-11   17:19:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  

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