#pagan

A spiritual organization with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others. ↗

— Starhawk

#heirarchy #paganism #inspirational

The western world now obeys the percepts of commerce.A bloody demanding religion,if you ask me.The do's and don'ts change every season and your "everyone" doesn't want to be left out,so they rush headlong to comply.That continuous change has a function,a single aim.Maximum consumption.They want to go on milking you.From the cradle to the grave.Face it:You're a brain washed ,walking purse,a robot,the fuel multinationals run on. ↗

— Esther Verhoef

#propaganda #change

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#men

It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#huxley #lenin #marx #mussolini #propaganda

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. ↗

— Harry Browne

#casualty #during #first #forsaken #known

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things. ↗

— Julian Clary

#i #kind #more #pagan #personal

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ↗

— F. M. Cornford

#branch #consists #deceiving #friends #lying

We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption. ↗

— George Creel

#call #come #corruption #deceit #did

I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#always #catholic #caused #completely #date

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. ↗

— Yehudi Menuhin

#gift #grows #hide #lies #must