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INDOCTRINATION
INDONESIA --- INDUSTRIALISATION
INEQUALITY --- INEVITABLE --- INEXPERIENCE
INFERIORITY --- INFIDELITY --- INFLUENCE
INFORMATION

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INDOCTRINATION

see also: "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 (1894-1963)
English novelist {grandson of T.H. Huxley}.
_Brave New World_ foreword to 1946 edition

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 (1788-1860)
German philosopher.
"Studies in Pessimism: Further Psychological Observations"
_Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_, tr. T. Bailey Saunders

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil
as those who steal from the public purse.
--Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965)
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 (1917-1999)
American sociologist and journalist.
"The Social Engineers _Fortune_ [January 1952]



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INDONESIA

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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 (1889-1974)
American journalist.
_New York Herald Tribune_ [10 January 1949].
In M.J. Cohan and John Major {eds.}
_History in Quotations_ [2004] p.865.
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.



INDUSTRIALISATION

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see "CAPITALISM" for related links


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 (1729-1797)
Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters,
_A Vindication of Natural Society_ [1753]
(on the coal miners during the Industrial Revolution)

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Ford, Henry (1863-1947) 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 André Bernard [2000 ed.]

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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 (1805-1859)
French historian and politician,
on Manchester, England, in
_Journeys to England and Ireland_ [1835]

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Come all ye bold wagoners turn out man by man
That's opposed to the railroad or any such a plan;
'Tis once I made money by driving my team
But the goods are now hauled on the railroad by steam.

May the devil get the fellow that invented the plan.
It'll ruin us poor wag'ners and every other man.
It spoils our plantations wherever it may cross,
And it ruins our markets, so we can't sell a hoss.
If we go to Philadelphia, inquiring for a load,
They'll tell us quite directly it's gone out on the railroad.
The rich folks, the plan they may justly admire,
But it ruins us poor wag'ners and it makes our taxes high:

Our states they are indebted to keep them in repair,
Which causes us poor wag'ners to curse and to swear.
It ruins our landlords, it makes business worse,
And to every other nation it has only been a curse.

It ruins wheelwrights, blacksmiths, and every other trade,
So damned be all the railroads that ever was made.
It ruins our mechanics, what think you of it, then?
And it fills our country full of just a lot of great rich men...

Come all ye bold wag'ners that have got good wives;
Go home to your farms and there spend your lives,
When your corn is all cribbed up and your small grain is sowed
You'll have nothing else to do but just to curse the damned railroad.

--"The Wagoner's Curse on the Railroad",
Pennylvania folk song

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INEQUALITY

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see also: "INJUSTICE"


Inequality will exist as long as liberty exists. It
unavoidably results from that very liberty itself.
--Alexander Hamilton (1755or57-1804)
New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention,
major author of the _Federalist Papers_, and first
secretary of the Treasury of the United States [1789-1795] {EB}

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 (1709-1784)
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_ [1959], ch. 7

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 (1917-1963)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961-1963],
press conference [21 March 1962]

Inequalities of condition spring from inequalities
of talent and courage.
--Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-1747)
French moralist and essayist,
_Reflections and Maxims_ [1746], tr. F.G. Stevens [1940]




INEVITABLE

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see also: "FATE"


ineluctable in-ih-LUCK-tuh-buhl, adjective:
Impossible to avoid or evade; inevitable.
Ex.: "California's vision of itself as a car culture
grew out of the impracticality of mass transit in
reaching most of its scenic wonders, the innate
restlessness of its inhabitants and the ineluctable
attraction of an open road."
--"From the Land of Private Freeways Comes Car Culture Shock,"
_New York Times_ [16 October 1997]




INEXPERIENCE

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see also: "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, (1759-1806)
British prime minister [1783-1801, 1804-1806]
during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars

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callow (adj.) ['kć-lo]
Immature, inexperienced, having not
reached adulthood, as a callow youth.





INFERIORITY

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see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links


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Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
--Alfred Adler (1870-1937)
Austrian psychologist.


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 (1870-1937)
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]


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 (1870-1937)
Austrian psychologist.
In _New York Times_ [20 September 1925].


The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced,
the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent
the emotional agitation.
--Alfred Adler (1870-1937)
Austrian psychologist.

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Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.
--José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)
Spanish philosopher.
_Meditations on Quixote_ [1911]

We like to know the weakness of eminent persons;
it consoles us for our inferiority.
--Madame de Lambert

No one can make you feel inferior without
your consent.
--Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
American human rights activist, diplomat, and
wife of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
_This Is My Story_ [1937]





INFIDELITY

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see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for 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 (1842-1914)
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.
--Rodney Dangerfield [Jacob Cohen]
(1921-2004) American comedian.

Where's there's Marriage without Love,
there will be Love without Marriage.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1734]

Here's to our wives and girlfriends
... may they never meet!
--Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (1895-1977)
American film comedian

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who
never committed adultery, are now extinct.
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
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 (1875-1950)
American writer,
_Reflections of a Bachelor Girl_ [1909]

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Giampetro, Joseph (1866-1913) German actor,
born in Vienna.

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."

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard




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INFLUENCE

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see "PERSUASION"

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people
themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests,
combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power
of the vast surplus in the banks.
--John C. Calhoun (1782—1850)
American political leader who was U.S. congressman,
secretary of war, vice president [1825—1832], senator,
and secretary of state. He championed states' rights.
and slavery and was a symbol of the Old South. - EB.
Speech [27 May 1836].

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 (1958— )
American actor and comedian.
"Maxim," interview [September 1999]

If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't
worry about who makes its laws.
--George Gerbner (1919—2005)
American professor of mass communication.
_Bill Moyers' Journal_ "TV or Not TV" [23 April 1979]

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 nče Davis (1923— )
Wife of President Ronald Reagan.
_Nancy_ [1980]

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.
--George Seferis [Giorgios Stylianou Seferiades] (1900—1971)
Greek poet, essayist, and diplomat who won
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1963.

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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.
3. Capable of adjusting to changing circumstances; adaptable.
Ex. 1: The natives proved less malleable and far less innocent
than the Europeans imagined, so much so that early colonial
history is filled with countless stories of monks who met
hideous deaths at the hands of their flocks.
--Juan Gonzalez,
_Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America_
Ex. 2: Those workers aged over 50 were considered too set in
their ways, too expensive to keep on and not malleable enough.
--Jill Sherman Whitehall, "Benefit costs force rethink on
retirement," _Times_ (London), [25 April 2000]

militate [MIL-ih-tayt], intransitive verb:
To have force or influence.
Ex.: Even though Simpson's youth, limited professional
experience, lack of reputation, unmarried status, and
modest social origins all militated against success, the
twenty-eight-year-old Simpson applied for the post.
--Donald Caton,
"What a Blessing She Had Chloroform"

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.
Ex.: It has given the world an example of what hard work can do,
but in general Japan prefers to focus on its own affairs and let
other countries proselytize for democracy, capitalism, communism,
or whatever else they believe in.
--James Fallows, "Containing Japan", _The Atlantic_ [May 1989]



INFORMATION

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see "KNOWLEDGE" for related links


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.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694-1773)
British writer and politician,
letter to his son [11 February 1751]

Now that I do know it, I shall
do my best to forget it.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
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 (1909-2005)
Austrian-born American management consultant,
educator, and author,
_Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices_ [1974], ch. 30

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]
(1908-1965) American broadcaster and journalist,
in his last public speech [October 1964]

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
--John Naisbitt (1929- )
_Megatrends: Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives_ [1984], ch. 1

You will find it a very good practice
always to verify your references, sir!
--Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854)
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 (1874-1946)
American writer,
_Reflection on the Atomic Bomb_ [1973], Volume I

That was a little bit more information
than I needed to know.
--Quentin Tarantino (1963- )
American film director and screenwriter,
"Pulp Fiction" [1994 film], spoken by Uma Thurman

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