Analogies Quote by Scott Adams

“Victor Klemperer, a literary scholar of Jewish origin, turned his philological training against Nazi propaganda. He noticed how Hitler’s language rejected legitimate opposition: The…

— Timothy Snyder

There are historical analogs, which are not exact, of course, but are close enough to be worrisome. This is a whiff of early Nazi…

— Noam Chomsky

“The demagogic propagandist must therefore be consistently dogmatic. All his statements are made without qualification. There are no grays in his picture of the…

— Aldous Huxley

Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.

— Tim Wu

Godwin's law states that the longer any online debate goes on, the likelier it is that someone will play the Nazi card. It's the…

— Anonymous

“„All effective propaganda“, Hitler wrote, „must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas.“ The stereotyped formulas must be constantly repeated for „only constant repetition…

— Aldous Huxley

“Labels such as ‘‘the culture wars,’’ ‘‘the science wars,’’ or ‘‘the Freud wars’’ are now widely used to refer to some of the disagreements…

— Ian Hacking

“Hitler kept the truth from his servile masses. Instead of intellectual persuasion he gave them emotional suggestion.”

— Marc Bloch

“Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change…

— J.G. Farrell

“If Hitler's Mein Kampf (only the Bible has sold more copies his century), his speeches and opinions are the rantings of a madman as…

— Michael Walsh

I lived with people who had varied opinions, some of whom did not accept my Nazi views. I encouraged this. If a man said…

— Baldur von Schirach

The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple…

— Winston Churchill