Character Quote by Vladimir Lenin

“When causes are vague and goals uncertain... it becomes necessary to fall back on the bloated and honeyed words of propaganda.”

— Peter Englund

An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence,…

— Terry Southern

Misrepresentation, false propaganda, innuendoes soon sprout into poisonous weeds, and before long the people find themselves victims of a pollution that has robbed them…

— David O. McKay

One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live…

— Lawrence Lessig

“In political affairs illusions are usually the product of a failure to appreciate change; but such failure-usually a necessary and perhaps salutary part of…

— Laurence Lafore

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result…

— Janice Rogers Brown

While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left…

— Phillip Adams

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

— Robert Higgs

“The affliction was too insipid, too much a product of our surrendering mindful regard and diligence. The meanings of words lost their precision –…

— Steven Erikson

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek…

— Vladimir Lenin

“any significant and lasting transformations of society require significant changes in the moral fiber of individual human beings; for as long as greed, hatred,…

— Dalai Lama XIV

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

— John Tillotson