Quote by Timothy Snyder Download Open image ““how bizarre propaganda actually is, but how normal it seems to those who yield to it.”” — Timothy Snyder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But that’s the trouble with propaganda. It constantly contradicts itself.” — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“If you want to understand propaganda you have to open your eyes to what you don`t want to see .” — Gerald Lanteigne 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 of absurdity,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“When causes are vague and goals uncertain... it becomes necessary to fall back on the bloated and honeyed words of propaganda.” — Peter Englund Copy Share Image
“There are two different evils about propaganda as now practised. On the one hand, its appeal is generally to irrational causes of belief rather… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Facts are a strange thing . . . when you know the facts to be true, they turn you into a revolutionary.” — Richard Diaz Copy Share Image
“Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it right!” Thus Hamlet. Yet he concludes: “Nay, come,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some combination of… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one. Most people were distracted, some were imprisoned, and others were outmatched.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We imbibed the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The key to this translation of ideology to politics in both cases was an effective appeal to human experience at the crucial time.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us to see… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up.… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“As she observed, “the first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridical person in man.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Once we subliminally accept that we are watching a reality show rather than thinking about real life, no image can actually hurt the president… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
