#belief — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #belief, aggregated by home.social.
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of Man?
HOBBES: I’m not sure Man needs the help.Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1992-04-06)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/85386…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #adversary #belief #corruption #devil #humancondition #humannature #humanity #lucifer #Satan #selfdestructiveness #temptation
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of Man?
HOBBES: I’m not sure Man needs the help.Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1992-04-06)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/85386…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #adversary #belief #corruption #devil #humancondition #humannature #humanity #lucifer #Satan #selfdestructiveness #temptation
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The absence of details (eg, skin blemishes, readable fine-print text, etc) in most dreams means you're looking at an idealised image of what the brain expects or wants to see, without it being checked against sensory input.
#sleep #dreams #psychology #neuroscience #idealism #fantasy #solipsism #brain #sensation #hallucination #emotion #salience #belief
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The absence of details (eg, skin blemishes, readable fine-print text, etc) in most dreams means you're looking at an idealised image of what the brain expects or wants to see, without it being checked against sensory input.
#sleep #dreams #psychology #neuroscience #idealism #fantasy #solipsism #brain #sensation #hallucination #emotion #salience #belief
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
“I don’t hold with paddlin’ with the occult,” said Granny firmly. “Once you start paddlin’ with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you’re believing in gods. And then you’re in trouble.”
“But all them things exist,” said Nanny Ogg.
“That’s no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages ’em.”Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 14, Lords and Ladies (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8535…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #lordsandladies #grannyweatherwax #nannyogg #belief #demons #existence #faith #gods #occult #spirits #spirituality #religion
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
“I don’t hold with paddlin’ with the occult,” said Granny firmly. “Once you start paddlin’ with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you’re believing in gods. And then you’re in trouble.”
“But all them things exist,” said Nanny Ogg.
“That’s no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages ’em.”Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 14, Lords and Ladies (1992)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8535…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #lordsandladies #grannyweatherwax #nannyogg #belief #demons #existence #faith #gods #occult #spirits #spirituality #religion
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“In a free society you can criticise any country or ideology. You can criticise capitalism, communism, socialism, imperialism, or any other -ism. You can argue that whatever ideology you dislike has no place in society. You can say that an ideology is racist or dangerous. People can and do say that all the time and they never get sacked… unless they do it about Zionism.
By the same token you can criticise the US, Europe, Russia, China or whatever place you think is causing massive problems for the world. But every journalist knows they mustn’t speak too harshly of Israel, even when it’s committing genocide. The fact that it’s so difficult to criticise Israel compared to any other country proves Miller was right. Zionism is the problem”
quoting Ricky from Council Estate Media on Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/anti-zionism-is-now-a-protected-belief
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Miller #EmploymentTribunal #Zionism #AntiZionism #Protected #Belief #Law
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“In a free society you can criticise any country or ideology. You can criticise capitalism, communism, socialism, imperialism, or any other -ism. You can argue that whatever ideology you dislike has no place in society. You can say that an ideology is racist or dangerous. People can and do say that all the time and they never get sacked… unless they do it about Zionism.
By the same token you can criticise the US, Europe, Russia, China or whatever place you think is causing massive problems for the world. But every journalist knows they mustn’t speak too harshly of Israel, even when it’s committing genocide. The fact that it’s so difficult to criticise Israel compared to any other country proves Miller was right. Zionism is the problem”
quoting Ricky from Council Estate Media on Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/anti-zionism-is-now-a-protected-belief
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Miller #EmploymentTribunal #Zionism #AntiZionism #Protected #Belief #Law
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Sven Ove Hansson has revised his SEP-entry on the Logic of Belief Revision, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-belief-revision/
#sep #belief #knowledge #tieto #epistemology #logic #philosophy #filosofia #reasoning #agm #learning #bayesian
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Sven Ove Hansson has revised his SEP-entry on the Logic of Belief Revision, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-belief-revision/
#sep #belief #knowledge #tieto #epistemology #logic #philosophy #filosofia #reasoning #agm #learning #bayesian
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
ERR, v.i. To believe or act in a way contrary to my beliefs and actions.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Err,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1884-05-24)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/85250…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #arrogance #belief #disagreement #ego #error #perspective #presumption #rightandwrong #selfrighteousness
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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #emerson #ralphwaldoemerson #selfreliance #belief #conformity #custom #greatness #independence #integrity #nonconformity #opinion #popularopinion #publicopinion #society #solitude #tradition #unswaying
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
-- John Burroughs⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnBurroughs #Belief
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
-- John Burroughs⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnBurroughs #Belief
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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BREAKING:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAUSES ORGANIC HYSTERIA 💎AI presses several #old human fear buttons at once.
It threatens work, status, expertise, authorship, privacy, and the comforting #belief that intelligence belongs especially to human beings.
AI also arrives through enormous companies people already distrust, so the fears are not entirely irrational.
Then there is the fear of losing #control
Most people understand a hammer.
AI is also a #tool, but it is harder to see into. It changes quickly, sometimes gets things wrong with amazing confidence, and can sound far more capable than it really is.
That uncertainty invites #projection
But AI also exposes something uncomfortable.
Much of human #activity was already formulaic.
Even parts of #journalism and professional #commentary .
When a machine can imitate these things, people are forced to ask how original they were in the first place.
The sensible position is neither to worship AI nor panic about it.
AI is a powerful human-made tool operating inside imperfect systems.
It can help.
It can deceive.
It can save time.
It can waste resources.
It can widen access.
It can concentrate power.
It can produce brilliance and slop, often in the same hour.
The question is not whether it is pure.
Nothing in this world is.
The question is whether it can be used consciously, critically, and without surrendering human judgement.
A tool becomes dangerous when it is mistaken for an authority.
It also becomes dangerous when fear prevents us from understanding it properly.
#human #ORGANIC #HYSTERIA #fear #hammer #privacy #resources #machine #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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BREAKING:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAUSES ORGANIC HYSTERIA 💎AI presses several #old human fear buttons at once.
It threatens work, status, expertise, authorship, privacy, and the comforting #belief that intelligence belongs especially to human beings.
AI also arrives through enormous companies people already distrust, so the fears are not entirely irrational.
Then there is the fear of losing #control
Most people understand a hammer.
AI is also a #tool, but it is harder to see into. It changes quickly, sometimes gets things wrong with amazing confidence, and can sound far more capable than it really is.
That uncertainty invites #projection
But AI also exposes something uncomfortable.
Much of human #activity was already formulaic.
Even parts of #journalism and professional #commentary .
When a machine can imitate these things, people are forced to ask how original they were in the first place.
The sensible position is neither to worship AI nor panic about it.
AI is a powerful human-made tool operating inside imperfect systems.
It can help.
It can deceive.
It can save time.
It can waste resources.
It can widen access.
It can concentrate power.
It can produce brilliance and slop, often in the same hour.
The question is not whether it is pure.
Nothing in this world is.
The question is whether it can be used consciously, critically, and without surrendering human judgement.
A tool becomes dangerous when it is mistaken for an authority.
It also becomes dangerous when fear prevents us from understanding it properly.
#human #ORGANIC #HYSTERIA #fear #hammer #privacy #resources #machine #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
You Learn by Living, Foreword (1960)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/33…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #actions #belief #choices #living #personalresponsibility #philosophy #responsibility #takeresponsibility #uncertainty #wordsanddeeds
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
You Learn by Living, Foreword (1960)More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/33…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #actions #belief #choices #living #personalresponsibility #philosophy #responsibility #takeresponsibility #uncertainty #wordsanddeeds
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GalileoGalilei #Belief #God
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-- Galileo Galilei⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GalileoGalilei #Belief #God
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork
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2 “Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a #false #belief bumps up against solid #reality, usually on a battlefield.” - #GeorgeOrwell
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The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time; the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against a solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-03-22), “In Front of Your Nose,” “As I Please” column, Tribune NewspaperMore about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/29647/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #belief #cognitivedissonance #confirmationbias #facefacts #facereality #facingfacts #honesty #intellectualhonesty #realitycheck #selectivememory #selfdeceit #selfdelusion #truth #unreliablenarrator
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The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time; the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against a solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-03-22), “In Front of Your Nose,” “As I Please” column, Tribune NewspaperMore about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/29647/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #belief #cognitivedissonance #confirmationbias #facefacts #facereality #facingfacts #honesty #intellectualhonesty #realitycheck #selectivememory #selfdeceit #selfdelusion #truth #unreliablenarrator
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Tell Me More YO! Belief! #tellmemoreyo #tellmemore #belief #questioneverything #Philosophy
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Tell Me More YO! Belief! #tellmemoreyo #tellmemore #belief #questioneverything #Philosophy
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“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.” Martin Luther
What if today we replaced just one worry with one hope?
We may not have all the answers, but hope reminds us that possibilities still exist.
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#hope #belief #SelfCompassion
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The Constitution and the Declaration of Independence can live only as long as they are enshrined in our hearts and minds. If they are not so enshrined, they would be no better than mummies in their glass cases, and they could in time become idols whose worship would be a grim mockery of the true faith. Only as these documents are reflected in the thoughts and acts of Americans can they remain symbols of a power that can move the world.
Harry S Truman (1884-1972) US President (1945-1953)
Speech (1952-12-15), National ArchivesMore about this quote: wist.info/truman-harry-s/63640…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #truman #harrytruman #America #belief #Constitution #DeclarationofIndependence #idolatry #meaning #moralcode #patriotism #values
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Mystery and play and the suspension of belief, for a moment while flying home from a Phoenix conference on November 11, 2005
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Mystery and play and the suspension of belief, for a moment while flying home from a Phoenix conference on November 11, 2005
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From a scientific perspective, probably the main problem with religious people is they usually take their traditions at face value. They rarely know the identities, social contexts, or motives of scriptures' authors, or the historical layers of texts presented as unified texts or collections.
#science #religion #tradition #author #authorship #attribution #identity #context #socialcontext #motive #scripture #history #text #collection #canon #deception #falsehood #faith #blindfaith #belief
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From a scientific perspective, probably the main problem with religious people is they usually take their traditions at face value. They rarely know the identities, social contexts, or motives of scriptures' authors, or the historical layers of texts presented as unified texts or collections.
#science #religion #tradition #author #authorship #attribution #identity #context #socialcontext #motive #scripture #history #text #collection #canon #deception #falsehood #faith #blindfaith #belief
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible, world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41872/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #belief #cynicism #elitism #gullibility #mob #totalitarianism #truth
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible, world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynicism the vice of superior and refined minds.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41872/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #belief #cynicism #elitism #gullibility #mob #totalitarianism #truth
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Tommaso Piazza reviews Gabriele Contessa's book Science Denial in SERRC, https://social-epistemology.com/2026/06/12/a-review-of-gabriele-contessas-science-denial-tommaso-piazza/
An eralier review was by Maya Goldenberg, https://social-epistemology.com/2026/04/29/science-denial-post-trust-and-epistemic-blame-a-review-of-contessas-science-denial-maya-goldenberg/
#science #tiede #denial #scienceDenial #epistemology #socialScience #climateDenial #pseudoscience #postTruth #truth #misinformation #trust #motivatedInquiry #evidence #reasoning #motivatedReasoning #harm #egoism #collectiveResponsibility #society #futures #planetEarth #resistance #belief #ideology #epistemicSecurity #psychology #philosophyOfScience #philosophy #filosofia
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Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to know or believe.
T. H. Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist [Thomas Henry Huxley]
(Attributed)More about this quote: wist.info/huxley-thomas-henry/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #huxley #thhuxley #agnosticism #belief #certainty #evidence #grounds #knowledge #profession #rationale #reason #reasoning #truth
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THE URANTIA BOOK & AI
I’d like to clear something up.
For years, I was fascinated by The #Urantia Book. I read it constantly, and because I had no other belief system I really understood at the time, I believed it. It gave me a #structure, a vast story, and a way to place myself inside something larger than the ordinary #world.
I don’t regret that. It served a purpose. #Human beings seem to need #belief systems, at least for a while. Not because they are ultimately true, but because they can give the mind somewhere to rest while we grow.
Since then, I’ve returned deeply to A Course in #Miracles (#ACIM). AI, specifically #ChatGPT, has helped me immensely, not by giving me another belief system, but by helping me question, clarify, and see what I actually mean.
I no longer see reality in The Urantia Book. I see a beautiful and elaborate story that helped me at the time. But I don’t believe it now, just as I don’t believe the #fairytales of #childhood.
That does not mean I despise it. It means I have outgrown the need to be fooled by it.
#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum
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Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-- Voltaire⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Voltaire #AbsurdityLies #Belief #Injustice
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can.
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 11, Reaper Man (1991)More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8465…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #reaperman #belief #creation #creativity #faith #gods #power
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/41783/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #absurdity #belief #cognitivedissonance #cynicism #deceit #deception #lying #mistrust #propaganda #totalitarianism
