The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Tessio Zizmo had been a virgin when she married Milton Stephanides at the age of 22. Their engagement,which coincided with the Second… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young… — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
I've played a super soldier, a doctor, a World War II fighter pilot, a professional footballer, and a meth-dealing junkie. All those… — Robert Kazinsky Copy Share Image
The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which thousands of African Americans were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Growing up after the Second World War in a Jewish family, I really understand that, and have members of my family who… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“The Antropocene is usually said to have begun with the industrial revolution, or perhaps even later, with the explosive growth in population… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“But there was a more recent author and public figure whose work spoke to the core of a new set of issues… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened… — David Swanson Copy Share Image
“In 1929 the leadership replaced institutions for long-term prisoners with work camps, designed to extract minerals in Siberia and other remote areas… — David Priestland Copy Share Image
“If America loses World War III [the Cold War], it will be because of the failure of its leadership class. In particular,… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“HMS Belfast is a gunship of 11,000 tons, commissioned in 1939, which saw active service in the Second World War. Since then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“When I started researching airline stewardesses, I found that the topic made for amusing cocktail party banter. “You’re writing a book about… — Victoria Vantoch Copy Share Image
“The fall of the protecting class walls transformed the slumbering majorities behind all parties into one great unorganized, structureless mass of furious… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“They were having a good time, an adventure. That was January’s dominant impression of his companions in the 509th; despite all the… — Harry Turtledove Copy Share Image
“I asked, Did she know Adolf Hitler invented the blow-up sex doll? And Ms. Wright’s black sunglasses turned to look at me.… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It was the economy that troubled most people prior to World War II. Europe, especially Germany, was dealing with a deep worldwide… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One 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
“Operational inquiry has established that Danylo Shablia assisted in the espionage activities of his son, Peter Shablia, helping him organize an anti-Soviet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the first professional computer programmers were all women during World War II, and only 12 percent of computer science degrees were… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in… — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
“How did we get here? How, like Tootle the Train, did we get so off track? Perhaps it’s time to revisit these… — Diane Muldrow Copy Share Image
“we are repeatedly told that the veterans of the Second World War did not face such problems. They had fought “the good… — Carol Schultz Vento Copy Share Image
“We Americans” is a fabrication of the rulers. There are the tens and tens and tens of millions of workers and farmers… — Jack Barnes Copy Share Image
“During World War II trolley tracks ran down Central Avenue, the main street of the Jersey City Heights, before traveling off of… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
Cartoons were very conservative. The country was very conservative. Although the liberals were allegedly in charge for a long time, there was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
“We have talked about World War I and World War II, but could World War III be in our future? The war… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“… and just as suddenly he was with Stern and it was a night twenty years ago in a city once called… — Edward Whittemore Copy Share Image
“Death duties in Harcourt’s time were a comparatively modest 8 percent on estates valued at £1 million or more, but they proved… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Karachi was not always synonymous with charred buses and mutilated bodies wrapped in gunny bags. The ‘Guide to Karachi’ distributed to American… — Laurent Gayer Copy Share Image
“The Middle East is an immense focal point of all kinds of collective forces: economic, religious, social, ideological, and cultural. We have… — Ritama Davidson Copy Share Image
“Unemployment, hard times, were growing in 1914. Could guns divert attention and create some national consensus against an external enemy? It surely… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“I let them do some simple arithmetic. In a group of one hundred people, how many assholes are there? How many fathers… — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was… — Julia Kristeva Copy Share Image
“Most white people in Midland City were insecure when they spoke, so they kept their sentences short and their words simple, in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In the wake of World War I, however, the British and French took out their imperial pens and carved up what remained… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
Today, we have a powerful military that serves as a deterrent, but the enemy we have today is not like World War… — Daniel Inouye Copy Share Image
Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades… — David Frum Copy Share Image