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• Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it happens too quick. I think the historical background that build into our genes is different. American people has never been occupied. The deep sadness and sentimentality, the cultural background that relates to melodrama that we relate to and grow up with, the propaganda, I didn't imagine the difference is so big. It's a very interesting cultural phenomenon.

  Ang Lee

  Growing Up, Sadness, Thinking

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• Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, Excellence, Directors

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• The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

  Strom Thurmond

  White, People, Understanding

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• Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. For women to find passive, objectified men sexy in large enough numbers to make a pornography industry based upon such images viable, would require the reconstruction of women's sexuality into a ruling-class sexuality. In an egalitarian society objectification would not exist and therefore the particular buzz provided by pornography, the excitement of eroticised dominance for the ruling class, would be unimaginable.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Sexy, Men, Class

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• The U.S. public is depoliticised, poorly informed on foreign affairs... and strongly patriotic in the face of a struggle with another Hitler. Even though the public is normally averse to war, even with modest propaganda efforts... the public can be quickly transformed into enthusiastic supporters of war.

  Edward S. Herman

  War, Struggle, Patriotic

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• Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

  Joseph Story

  Wise, Fall, Order

  Joseph Story (1834). “The Constitutional Class Book: Being a Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Designed for the Use of the Higher Classes in Common Schools”, p.154

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• The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes.

  Gil J Wolman

  Humanity, Heritage, Purpose

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• Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

  William Blum

  Inspirational, Life, Democracy

  William Blum (2006). “Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower”, p.13, Zed Books

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• The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Ideas, Trinkets

  Herbert Marshall Mcluhan (2010). “Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews”, p.270, McClelland & Stewart

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• The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mother, Children, Perception

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• Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Tyrants, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.136, Penguin

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• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

  Gore Vidal

  Communication, Cities, People

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.52, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Internet, Made, Spread

  "Why Tyrants Like Twitter" by Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. October 26, 2009.

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• The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.

  Daniel Handler

  Foam, October, Drains

  Daniel Handler (2009). “Watch Your Mouth: A Novel”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Men, Jail

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• After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

  J. G. Ballard

  Safety, Car, Relief

  "Crash". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1973.

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• The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great skepticism - which foretells a coming change. As soon as skepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Failure, Fall, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.

  Alexander Haig

  War, Circles, America

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• The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting with the combat units of the enemy in the war of 5 June 1967 was intended more as propaganda than anything real or substantial. It was calculated to intensify and compound the adverse psychological effects of the war by exploiting the backward outlook of large sections of Arab society and their role in the community. The intention was to achieve adverse psychological effects by saying to Arabs that they were defeated, in 1967, by women.

  Saddam Hussein

  Military, Real, War

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• The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

  Martin Buber

  Education, Real, Struggle

  "Encounter with Martin Buber". Book by Aubrey Hodes, 1972.

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• We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Truth, Creative

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.817, Best Books on

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• All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

  Upton Sinclair

  Art, Sometimes, Art Is

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• I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, World Government, Class

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• On May 7, a few weeks after the accident at Three-Mile Island, I was in Washington. I was there to refute some of that propaganda that Ralph Nader, Jane Fonda and their kind are spewing to the news media in their attempt to frighten people away from nuclear power. I am 71 years old, and I was working 20 hours a day. The strain was too much. The next day, I suffered a heart attack. You might say that I was the only one whose health was affected by that reactor near Harrisburg. No, that would be wrong. It was not the reactor. It was Jane Fonda. Reactors are not dangerous.

  Edward Teller

  Heart, Next Day, Islands

  2 page advertisement sponsored by Dresser Industries in the "Wall Street Journal", July 31, 1979.

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• We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [...]. All of this was part of a well-financed propaganda campaign on the part of British agents. As usual, the government of the United States was being "run" by the British Secret Intelligence Service.

  Eustace Mullins

  Running, Religious, War

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