"Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is……" — William Blum
"Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship."
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William Blum
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13 Quotes by William Blum
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A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but doesn't have an air force.
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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human…
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Why don't church leaders forbid Catholics from joining the military with the same fervor they tell Catholics to stay away…
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The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be…
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No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.
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Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in…
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Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
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The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best…
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From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than…
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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might…
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Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the…
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America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that reason is morally worse than…
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More Democracy Quotes
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
— Aristotle
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the…
— Aristotle
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
— Aristotle
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
— Aristotle
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because…
— Aristotle
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Jeans represent democracy in fashion.
— Giorgio Armani
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I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings…
— Richard Armitage
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
— Richard Armour
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
— Karen Armstrong
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
— Chinua Achebe
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…
— Chinua Achebe
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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