The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.

The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.

It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they too are being dragged helplessly along by it. People are manipulated in ways that are infinitely more subtle and refined than the brutal methods used in post-totalitarian societies.

The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge, noisy, and stinking machine.

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than 10 military divisions.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it