But the frightening aspect is that it's part of a larger effort from the Pentagon to tear down the wall between public… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“We must each of us do our home work. 'My people are destroyed,' said Hosea, 'for lack of knowledge.' We must be… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The other pioneer of political public relations was Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, who sharpened his skills writing prowar propaganda… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
“By hiding behind the overarching term “white privilege,” the small percentage of privileged whites have ensured the following: first, they remain disguised… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world,… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Mexico just needs more journalists, and especially more good places to publish and exhibit. There are all kinds of censorship practiced in… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
“Usually I spare myself from the news, because if it’s not propaganda, then it’s one threat or another exaggerated to the point… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Do not open your minds to the filtering of the fallacious doctrine that it is less infamous to murder men for their… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda. ... The only difference is the kind of propaganda. Since art is essential for human life, it can't… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
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[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Extremism stifles true progression in all fields of human advancement; it is a detriment to everything but war, tribalism and the personal… — Daniel S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
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“In fact, the nature of Western systems of indoctrination is typically not understood by dictators, they don’t understand the utility for propaganda… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled. And this they will do,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as… — David Edward Copy Share Image
“Many of the great economic masters, though they had originally favored radio-bliss in moderation as an opiate for the discontented workers, now… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“„All effective propaganda“, Hitler wrote, „must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas.“ The stereotyped formulas must be constantly repeated for „only… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Since the 1990s, the ruling class of China has endeavoured to produce an ideological fantasy through the machinery of propaganda development (increase… — Chen Qiufan Copy Share Image
“Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so?… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Back in the 1920s, the major manual of the public relations industry actually was titled Propaganda (in those days, people were a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
Because they don't teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I hate political films that have one particular message that they're trying to convey. I think propaganda is very dangerous, and it's… — Tamer El Said Copy Share Image
Propaganda must not concern itself with what is best in man - the highest goals humanity sets for itself, its noblest and… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Propaganda campaigns in general have been closely attuned to elite interests. The Red scare of 1919-20 have served well to abort the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In the mid-1980s, however, the Estonian TV programmers came up with a clever idea: they asked Moscow for millions of rubles to… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
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