Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence... they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.
- Vaclav Havel
"The Power of the Powerless" (1978). Excerpts from the Original Electronic Text provided by Bob Moeller, of the University of California, Irvine.
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