Acquiesence, 2006.

“The behavior of men is not independent of the theories of human behavior that men adopt…What we believe of man affects the behavior of men, for it determines what each expects of the other…belief helps shape actuality.”
-Leon Eisenberg, The Human Nature of Human Nature, Science 176, April 1972, page 123.

"Ordinary men and women will be expected to be docile, industrious, punctual, thoughtless, and contented. Of these qualities probably contentment will be considered the most important. In order to produce it, all the researches of psycho-analysis, behaviourism, and biochemistry will be brought into play.... All the boys and girls will learn from an early age to be what is called `co-operative,' i.e., to do exactly what everybody is doing. Initiative will be discouraged in these children, and insubordination, without being punished, will be scientifically trained out of them."
-Bertrand Russell, The Scientific Outlook, 1931, page 251.

"[The] tendency is for the mind to be lulled by regularity and routine. It tends to pay less attention to events which occur again and again and is not good at spotting marginal or gradual changes."
-Michael Dewar, The Art of Deception in Warfare, 1989, page

“I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
-James Madison, 1788.

“Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.”
-Rudolph Giuliani, mayor of New York City 1994-2001, quoted in New York Newsday, April 20, 1998.

"...We must always deal with reality. They have been able to use the element of fear to control their masses of people... We must not be drawn into their traps... It is time for us to think...We have to learn to put up and deal with the hard times just like the good times... We have to learn and understand that they want us to be lazy in our minds and lazy in our spirit and lazy in our body. They want us to be able to give up hope easily. They want us to quit thinking. (just obey, work, consume, and fear and hate when told) But the nature of the People on Earth has always been one of struggle...If they stop us one way then we must find another way... We have to take the initiative. We can no longer become and remain reactionary..."
-John Trudell

"It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
-Noel Coward

"One of the smartest things the Nazis did, according to Zygmunt Bauman in 'Modernity and the Holocaust,' was to make it seem in the Jew's rational best interests not to resist: 'do you want an ID card or do you want to resist and possibly get killed? Do you want to live in the ghetto or do you want to resist and get killed? Do you want to get on this cattle car or do you want to resist and get killed? Do you want to take a shower or do you want to resist and get killed?'
Every step of the way, it was in their rational best interest to not resist... We see the same thing happening today... But I'll tell you something really interesting: The Jews who participated in the Warsaw ghetto uprising had a much higher rate of survival than those who went along. We need to keep that in mind over the next ten years."
-Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1:The Problem of Civilization, 2006, page 326.

"Et personne ne se revolte. Pourquoi? C'est incomprehensible."
-Mohammed Dib, La grande Maison, 1952, page