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. . . INDOCTRINATION see: "PROPAGANDA" 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 (18941963) English novelist {grandson of T.H. Huxley}. _Brave New World_, foreword to 1946 edition Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. --V.I. Lenin (18701924) Russian revolutionary and first head of the Soviet state (19171924). Attributed in "National Review" (mag.) [1938]. There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. --Arthur Schopenhauer (17881860) German philosopher. "Studies in Pessimism: Further Psychological Observations" _Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_, tr. T. Bailey Saunders [1889] Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. --Adlai E. Stevenson (19001965) American Democratic politician. Speech, National Guard Armory, Albuquerque, New Mexico [12 September 1952]. If the first half of the century was the era of technical engineering, the second half will be the era of social engineering. --William H. Whyte (19171999) American sociologist and journalist. "The Social Engineers" in _Fortune_ [January 1952].  ;void(0)) INDONESIA . . see: "PLACES" for related links Indonesia is known for its moderate, syncretic, inclusive brand of Islam. People see no difficulty in worshipping Allah and sea spirits. --Jason Burke, "Paradise lost," _The Observer_ [22 December 2002] Our friends in Western Europe ... should try to realize how disastrous it would be to them, and to the cause of Western civilization, if ever it could be said that the Western Union for the defense of freedom in Europe was in Asia a syndicate for the preservation of decadent empires. --Walter Lippmann (18891974) American journalist. _New York Herald Tribune_ [10 January 1949]. In M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_, p. 865 [2004]. Cohan & Major explain: Washington threatened the Dutch with the withdrawal of Marshall Aid under the European Recovery Program if they refused to come to terms with the Indonesian nationalists. The Americans considered they were safe in doing so because the Indonesian leadership was not communist. . . see: "CAPITALISM" for related links [On the coal miners during the Industrial Revolution:] These unhappy wretches scarce ever see the light of the sun; they are buried in the bowels of the earth; there they work at a severe and dismal task, without the least prospect of being delivered from it; they subsist upon the coarsest and worst sort of fare; they have their health miserably impaired, and their lives cut short, by being perpetually confined in the close vapour of those malignant minerals. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. _A Vindication of Natural Society_ [1753] The tendency of unlimited industrialism is to create bodies of men and women of all classes detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion: in other words, a mob. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined. --T.S. Eliot (18881965) Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist. _The Idea of a Christian Society_ [1939 essay] ^ Henry Ford (18631947) American businessman who pioneered the mass production of automobiles. Ford was discussing education with a young man who found himself frustrated by what he felt to be Ford's narrow view of schooling. The fellow begged to differ. 'These are different times this is the modern age' Ford interrupted to snap, 'Young man, I invented the modern age.' --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ [On Manchester, England:] A sort of black smoke covers the city. The sun seen through it is a disc without rays. Under this half-daylight 300,000 human beings are ceaselessly at work ... From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. From this filthy sewer pure gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish; here civilization makes its miracles, and civilized man is turned back almost into a savage. --Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859) French historian and politician. _Journeys to England and Ireland_ [1835] . . see: "INJUSTICE" It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. --Felix Frankfurter (18821965) Austrian-born U.S. Supreme Court justice who helped found the A.C.L.U.. Dissenting opinion in "Dennis v. United States" [1950]. Inequality will exist as long as liberty exists. It unavoidably results from that very liberty itself. --Alexander Hamilton (1755or571804) New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention, major author of the _Federalist Papers_, and first secretary of the Treasury of the United States [17891795]. Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia [26 June 1787], as quoted in _Georgia Bar Journal_, vol. 18 [1955]. I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. --Langston Hughes (19021967) American writer and poet. "The Black Man Speaks" in _Jim Crow's Last Stand_ [1943]. So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791] "15 February 1766". One-way first-name calling always means inequality witness servants, children, and dogs. --Marjorie Karmel _Thank You, Dr. Lamaze_, ch. 7 [1959] There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some are wounded, and some men never leave the country. ... Life is unfair. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (19171963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19611963]. Press conference [21 March 1962]. If the wife should say to her husband, "I no longer want you for my husband," she is to be thrown into the water with her hands and feet tied. On the other hand, if he should say, "I no longer want you for my wife," he is to pay her 80 grams of silver. --marriage contract [c. 1700 B.C.], in Jean Bottιro _Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia_, p. 115 [2001]. If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of the United States; that is to say, they will owe their origin, not to the equality, but to the inequality of condition. --Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859) French historian and politician. _Democracy in America_, vol. 2, sec. 3, ch. 21 [1840] Inequalities of condition spring from inequalities of talent and courage. --Marquis de Vauvenargues (17151747) French moralist and essayist. _Reflections and Maxims_ [1746], tr. F.G. Stevens [1940] From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either the one or the other, but not both at the same time. --Friedrich A. von Hayek (18991992) Austrian-born British economist; co-winner of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. _The Constitution of Liberty_ [1960] . . see: "FATE" see: "FUTILITY" There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. --James Russell Lowell (18191891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. "Democracy", Address at Town Hall, Birmingham, Eng. [6 October 1884]. ----- ineluctable in-ih-LUCK-tuh-buhl, adjective: Impossible to avoid or evade; inevitable. . . see: "YOUTH" A young doctor means a new graveyard. --German proverb Yes, I know I am young and inexperienced, but it is a fault I am remedying every day. --attributed to William Pitt, the Younger, (17591806) British prime minister [17831801, 18041806] During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. ----- callow (adj.) ['kζ-lo] Immature, inexperienced, having not reached adulthood, as a callow youth. naif [nah-EEF; ny-], adjective: 1. Naive. 2. A naive or inexperienced person. . . see: "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links - Individual psychology holds that the most important key to the understanding of both personal and mass problems is the so-called sense of inferiority, or inferiority complex, and its consequences. --Alfred Adler (18701937) Austrian psychologist. In _New York Times_ [20 September 1925]. Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. --Alfred Adler (18701937) Austrian psychologist. _Social Interest: A Challenge to Mankind_ [1938] Everyone ... has a feeling of inferiority. But the feeling of inferiority is not a disease; it is rather a stimulant to health, normal striving and development. It becomes a pathological condition only when the sense of inadequacy overwhelms the individual and, far from stimulating him to useful activity, makes him depressed and incapable of development. --Alfred Adler (18701937) Austrian psychologist. _The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler: A Systematic Presentation in Selections from His Writings_, ed Heinz L. Ansbacher and Rowena R. Ansbacher [1956] - People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority. --Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (16941773) British writer and politician. Letter to his son [30 April 1750]. Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority. --Josι Ortega y Gasset (18831955) Spanish philosopher. _Meditations on Quixote_ [1911] We like to know the weakness of eminent persons; it consoles us for our inferiority. --Madame de Lambert (16471733) French writer and salonniθre. Attributed in Rufus E. Shapley & Ainsworth R. Spofford (eds.) _A Library of Wit and Humor_, vol. 4, p. 303 [5 vols., 1884]. Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks_ [1956] We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides. --Pliny the Elder [Gaius Plinius Secundus] (2379) Roman statesman and scholar. Attributed in _Mental Recreation Or, Select Maxims_, p. 78 [Longman & Rees, London, 1831]. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. --Eleanor Roosevelt (18841962) American human rights activist, diplomat, and wife of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Quoted in "Vidette-Messenger" (Valparaiso, Indiana) [7 June 1941]. ;void(0)) INFIDELITY . . see: "AFFAIRS" see: "TREACHERY" see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for other related links You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day. --Ambrose Bierce (18421914) American newspaperman, wit, and satirist. _The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906] (Retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_.) My wife met me at the door wearing a see-through negligee. Unfortunately she was just coming home. --attributed to Rodney Dangerfield [Jacob Cohen] (19212004) American comedian. Where there's Marriage without Love, there will be Love without Marriage. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. _Poor Richard's Almanack_ [May 1734] Here's to our wives and girlfriends May they never meet! --attributed to Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (18951977) American film comedian. You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. --W. Somerset Maugham (18741965) English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer. _The Bread Winner_, sc iii [1930 play] One man's folly is often another man's wife. --Helen Rowland (18751950) American writer. _Reflections of a Bachelor Girl_ [1909] - Joseph Giampetro (18661913) German actor. Elegant and accomplished, Giampetro was an indefatigable Don Juan. A friend, encountering him a coffeehouse looking somewhat worried and holding a letter in his hands, asked sympathetically if he had received bad news. "No," was the reply, "but the sender of this letter says that he will strangle me if I keep on paying attention to his wife." "Well," advised the friend, "I'd lay off the lady if I were you." "But *which* lady," cried Giampetro. "The damn letter is anonymous." --Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard (eds.) _Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ [rev. ed. 2000] - The follies which a man regrets the most in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. --Helen Rowland (18751950) American writer. _A Guide to Men_ [1922], "Improvisations" Some people actually cheat on the people they're cheating with, which is like holding up a bank and then turning to the robber next to you and going, 'All right, give me everything you got, too.' --Jerry Seinfeld (b. 1954) American actor, writer, and comedian. _SeinLanguage_ [1993] -- A soldier stationed in the South Pacific wrote to his wife in the States to please send him a harmonica to occupy his free time and keep his mind off of the local women. The wife complied and sent the best one she could find, along with several dozen lesson and music books. Rotated back home, he rushed to their home and thru the front door. "Oh darling" he gushed, "Come here... let me look at you... let me hold you ! Let's have a fine dinner out, then make love all night. I've missed your lovin' so much !" The wife, keeping her distance, said, "All in good time lover. First, let's hear you play that harmonica." -- Our maid asked for a pay increase. My wife was very upset about this and decided to talk to her about the raise. She asked: 'Now Maria, why do you want a pay increase?' Maria: 'Well, Senora, there are three reasons why I want an increase. The first is that I iron better than you.' Wife: 'Who said you iron better than me?' Maria: 'Your husband said so.' Wife: 'Oh.' Maria: 'The second reason is that I am a better cook than you.' Wife: 'Nonsense, who said you were a better cook than me?' Maria: 'Your husband did.' Wife: 'Oh.' Maria: 'My third reason is that I am a better lover than you.' Wife: (really furious now) 'Did my husband say that as well?' Maria: 'No Senora ... the gardener did.' Wife: 'So how much do you want?' -- ;void(0)) INFLUENCE . . see: "EXAMPLE" see: "INSPIRATION" see: "PARENTING" see: "PERSUASION" see: "POWER" - Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ [1790] [On the younger William Pitt's maiden speech in Parliament (February 1781):] Not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. Quoted in Nathaniel W. Wraxall _Historical Memoirs of My Own Time_ [1904]. - It's like the thing with violent video games now. What violent video game did Jack the Ripper play? Did Hitler play Risk in high school and that's why he wanted to take over the world? It's insane logic. --Drew Carey (b. 1958) American actor and comedian. "Maxim," interview [September 1999] Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. --Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) American Democratic statesman, President [19771981]. Remark at a Cabinet meeting [21 March 1977], quoted in Robert Shogan _Promises to Keep: Carter's First 100 Days_ [1977]. I did not have my mother long, but she cast over me an influence which has lasted all my life. The good effects of her early training I can never lose. If it had not been for her appreciation and her faith in me at a critical time in my experience, I should never likely have become an inventor. I was always a careless boy, and with a mother of different mental calibre, I should have turned out badly. But her firmness, her sweetness, her goodness, were potent powers to keep me in the right path. My mother was the making of me. The memory of her will always be a blessing to me. --Thomas Alva Edison (18471931) American inventor. Quoted in "The Expositor and Current Anecdotes" [May 1912]. If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws. --George Gerbner (19192005) American professor of mass communication. _Bill Moyers' Journal_ "TV or Not TV" [23 April 1979] The West is overwhelmingly dominant now and will remain number one in terms of power and influence well into the twenty-first century. Gradual, inexorable, and fundamental changes, however, are also occurring in the balances of power among civilizations, and the power of the West relative to that of other civilizations will continue to decline. ... The most significant increases in power are accruing and will continue to accrue to Asian civilizations, with China gradually emerging as the society most likely to challenge the West for global influence. These shifts in power among civilizations are leading and will lead to the revival and increased cultural assertiveness of non-Western societies and to their increasing rejection of Western culture. --Samuel Huntington (19272008) American political scientist. _Clash of Civilizations_, pp. 82-3 [1996] If I'm more of an influence to your son as a rapper than you are as a father . . . you've got to look at yourself as a parent. --Ice Cube (b. 1970) American rap musician. In "Rolling Stone" [4 October 1990]. [Upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe in November, 1862:] So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war! --Abraham Lincoln (18091865) American Republican statesman, President [18611865]. Quoted in McClure's Magazine [April 1911]. The subtlest and most pervasive of all influences are those which create and maintain the repertory of stereotypes. We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. --Walter Lippmann (18891974) American journalist. _Public Opinion_, ch. 6 [1929] My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. --attributed to Spike [Terence Alan] Milligan (19182002) Irish novelist, poet, musician, and comedian. If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding leads me another. --Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.18 A.D.) Roman poet. "Metamorphoses", VII, 18 If you live with a cripple, you will learn to limp. --Plutarch (A.D. 46?119?) Greek philosopher and biographer. _Moralia_ [c. 100], "The Education of Children" To be completely candid, I think most movies nowadays are trash, and many strike me as unhealthy. The explicit sex, pointless violence, and crude language appeal only to our lowest instincts. They have taken away our idealism, our sense of fun and joy. It's chic to be cynical and tear our heroes down. What has happened to us? And what are we doing to our young people? --Nancy Reagan nθe Davis (b. 1923) Wife of President Ronald Reagan. _Nancy_ [1980] It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. --Helen Rowland (18751950) American writer. _Reflections of a Bachelor Girl_ [1909] In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. --attributed to Albert Schweitzer (18751965) Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor. Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. --attributed to George Seferis [Giorgios Stylianou Seferiades] (19001971) Greek poet, essayist, and diplomat who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. --Thomas a' Kempis (13801471) German ascetical writer. _Imitation of Christ_, bk. I, ch. 16 [c.1420] Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Quoted in Merle Johnson _More Maxims of Mark_ [1927]. It's not what you know, but who you know. --"Washington Post" [1 March 1952] ----- affect (verb) [κ-'fekt] To have an effect on someone or something. expostulate [ik-SPOS-chuh-leyt], verb: To reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done. malleable [MAL-ee-uh-buhl], adjective: 1. Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. 2. Capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces; easily influenced. miasma (noun) [mi az'ma, me-] 1/ A vapor rising as from marshes or decomposing animal or vegetable matter. 2/ An unwholesome or befogging atmosphere, influence, etc. Ex.: Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the elements of disease, and bring new elements of health. And where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast. --Henry Ward Beecher militate [MIL-ih-tayt], intransitive verb: To have force or influence. proselytize [PROS-uh-luh-tyz], intransitive verb: 1. To induce someone to convert to one's religious faith. 2. To induce someone to join one's institution, cause, or political party. 3. To convert to some religion, system, opinion, or the like. . . see: "KNOWLEDGE" for related links I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. --Franklin Pierce Adams (18811960) American columnist and member of the Algonquin Round Table. Quoted in "Reader's Digest" [October 1960]. We are so made, we love to be pleased better than to be informed; information is, in a certain degree, mortifying, as it implies our previous ignorance; it must be sweetened to be palatable. --G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton (18741936) English essayist, novelist, and poet. Letter to his son [11 February 1751]. - Memoirs are inherently wistful, but Larry McMurtry's reminiscences of his life with books not as a novelist but as a reader, book scout, and bookstore owner are especially valedictory. Nearly every page sounds a note of farewell, of stoic, weary resignation, of time running out. While McMurtry's voice remains modest, low-key, and immensely sympathetic, no amount of charm can disguise a pervasive melancholy in his pages. As he says, "A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them." But, he fears, the age of eagerly turned pages is passing: Today the sight that discourages book people most is to walk into a public library and see computers where books used to be. In many cases not even the librarians want books to be there. What consumers want now is information, and information increasingly comes from computers. That is a preference I can't grasp, much less share, though I'm well aware that computers have many valid uses. They save lives, and they make research in most cases a thing that's almost instantaneous. They do many good things. But they don't really do what books do, and why should they usurp the chief function of a public library, which is to provide readers access to books? Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library. --Michael Dirda (b. 1948) "The Treasure Hunter", a book review of Larry McMurtry's _Books: A Memoir_ [2008] in _The New York Review of Books_ [14 August 2008]. - Now that I do know it, I shall do my best to forget it. --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930) Scottish-born writer of detective fiction. _A Study in Scarlet_ [1887] Information is, above all, a principle of economy. The fewer data needed, the better the information. And an overload of information leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes. --Peter Drucker (19092005) Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author. _Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices_, ch. 30 [1974] The speed of communication is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. --Edward R. Murrow [Egbert Roscoe Murrow] (19081965) American broadcaster and journalist. In his last public speech [October 1964]. We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. --John Naisbitt (b. 1929) American author and public speaker. _Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives_, ch. 1 [1982] There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is contempt prior to investigation. --William Paley (17431805) English theologian and philosopher. Quoted in William Henry Poole _Anglo-Israel; or, The British Nation The Lost Tribes of Israel_ [1879]. You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir! --Martin Joseph Routh (17551854) English classicist. In John William Burgon _Lives of Twelve Good Men_ [1888 ed.]. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. --Gertrude Stein (18741946) American writer. _Reflection on the Atomic Bomb_ [1946], pub. in "Yale Poetry Review" [December 1947]. Information is not power. If information were power, then librarians would be the most powerful people on the planet. --Bruce Sterling (b. 1954) American science fiction writer. Speech in Houston, Texas [23 May 1994]. That was a little bit more information than I needed to know. --Quentin Tarantino (b. 1963) American film director and screenwriter. 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