"It would be rash indeed to discount the terrifying roster of distinguished men whom totalitarianism can count among its sympathizers, fellow-travelers, and inscribed party members." Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism "This elite-generated social control maintains the status quo because the status quo benefits and validates those who created and sit atop it. People rise to prominence when they parrot the orthodoxy rather than critically analyze it. Intellectual regurgitation is prized over independent thought. Real change in politics or society cannot occur under the orthodoxy because if it did, it would threaten the legitimacy of the professional class and all of the systems that helped them achieve their status." Kristine Mattis, The Cult of the Professional Class “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair "The most important problem in the world today is your soul, for that is what the struggle is all about." Fulton J. Sheen
