Source: Comments made in 1974 during an interview with the French writer Roger Errera and published in October 26, 1978 issue of The NewYork Review of Books Interview.If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. …
And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind.
It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge.
And with such a people you can then do what you please.
Credit: Hannah Arendt, German-born, American philosopher and political theorist
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