Brave New World: "A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.... The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth." -- Aldous Huxley (1)
"People of all ages, stations, and skills will be asked to serve.... I will set a goal for all American middle and high school students to perform 50 hours of service a year, and for all college students to perform 100 hours of service a year...." -- Barack Obama in a speech in Colorado Springs, Colorado (2)
I'm just pointing this out...
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1. Aldous Huxley Quotes.
Retrieved September 3, 2009, from Liberty-Tree.ca
2. Obama, Barack (2008, July 2). "A New Era of Service".
Retrieved September 3, 2009, from Real Clear Politics
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