“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
“Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.”
“The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.”
“What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.”
“Man has the power to act as his own destroyer and that is he has acted through most of history.”
“To disarm the people--that was the best and most effective way to enslave them.”