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• But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

  Jeff Goodell

  Stupid, Oil, Uranium Mining

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• In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

  Bill Kovach

  Art, Discipline, Fiction

  Bill Kovach, Tom Rosenstiel (2001). “The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect”, p.91, Three Rivers Press

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• The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Military, Struggle, Agitation

  "he Guillotine At Work : Twenty Years of Terror In Russia". Book by Grigoriĭ Petrovich Maksimov, p. 38, 1940.

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• No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

  Wendell Phillips

  Freedom, Jealous, People

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• There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between a heap of raw materials and a battleship.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Differences, Community

  Bertrand Russell (1986). “Bertrand Russell on God and Religion”

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• A safe rule where Jewish propaganda is concerned is to multiply or divide their figures by ten, at least, before accepting them as the basis for discussion.

  Arnold Leese

  Safe, Accepting, Figures

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• ...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Gun, Simple, Notable

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• Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

  Criss Jami

  Technology, Connections, Information

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.32, Criss Jami

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• The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Heart, Simplicity

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• In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.

  David Levering Lewis

  Determination, Careers, Rights

  "'He Would Not Bleach His Negro Soul': W.E.B. Du Bois" by Kris Broughton, bigthink.com. 2017.

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• Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Lying, Men, Self

  Robert A. Heinlein (1953). “Assignment in Eternity”

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• Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

  Steig Larsson

  Writing, Light, Stories

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• The propaganda of Communism throughout the world, in organization and direction is in the hands of Jewish agents. As for anyone who does not know that the Bolshevist movement in Russia is Jewish, I can only say that he must be a man who is taken in by the suppression of our deplorable press.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Taken, Men, Organization

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• Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

  Norman Jewison

  Looks, Want, Documentaries

  "Profile and Interview: Norman Jewison". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com. January 2004.

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• I think there's something unfortunate about the attention that performers get in our media, but the weight of government propaganda is so heavy that anyone with a different point of view who has access to the media has a responsibility to use it.

  David Clennon

  Responsibility, Thinking, Views

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• I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Faith Religion

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• Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Care

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

  Fatou Bensouda

  Powerful, People, Focus

  "Fatou Bensouda: “We Are Not Against Africa”". Interview with Mercy Eze, newafricanmagazine.com. September 11, 2012.

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• One should be weary of drawing too many inferences from a single poll. You can find wildly disparate results with two different polls. There is no question that American Muslims remain one of the most marginalized and demonized groups in United States. There has been a sustained propaganda campaign against Muslims for over a decade and it doesn't disappear over night. Those attitudes are hardened. But one of the things that polling often doesn't measure is the intensity of opinions.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Attitude, Night, Different

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• In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teenager, Hysteria, Self

  "Noam Chomsky: Truth to power". Interview with David McNeill, chomsky.info. February 22, 2014.

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• In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

  Kate Adie

  War, Enemy, Kind

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• That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.

  Lindsey Buckingham

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• The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality.

  Brennan Manning

  Revenge, Two, Arrogance

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• No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.

  Alan Bullock

  Integrity, Patriotic, Firsts

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• Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.

  Thomas Sowell

  Creating, Serious, Study

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