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• All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks - We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because we don’t have the Koch brothers. It takes a different kind of capital to fight that stuff.

  DJ Spooky

  Brother, Fighting, Different

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• The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Inspirational, Lying, Size

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, www.theguardian.com. 1925.

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• Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty.

  George W. Bush

  Lying, September, Blame

  First Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 10 November 2001, U.N. Headquarters, New York

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• Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Achievement, Needs, Speak

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Money, method, and the market process: essays”, Kluwer Academic Pub

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• It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad masses of its adherents.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Party

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Class, Enemy, Add

  YouTube Channel "planetjanet"/"Slavoj Žižek interview on NiteBeat", www.youtube.com. June 25, 2008.

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• Try not to be too angry or disappointed with your fellow Americans. Most of them don't care about politics as much as the majority of my readers, and the education they have received about it from the government's public school system is nothing more than a septic tank full of warmed-over self-serving statist lies and leftist propaganda.

  L. Neil Smith

  Lying, School, Government

  "Only Nixon". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. November 09, 2008.

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• I was all for setting up a separate Jewish state in Madagascar or Palestine or someplace, but not to exterminate them. Besides, by exterminating 4 million Jews - they say 5 or 6 million at this trial, but that is all propaganda, I am sure it wasn't more than 4.5 million - they have made martyrs out of those Jews. For example, because of the extermination of these Jews, anti-Semitism has been set back many years in certain foreign countries where it had been making good progress.

  Julius Streicher

  Country, Years, Progress

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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• We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

  Edward Bernays

  Men, Nwo, Ideas

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda among the masses, and call upon them to put these principles and methods into practice so as to solve their problems and help them achieve liberation and happiness.

  Mao Zedong

  Practice, Principles, Helping

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.69, Lulu.com

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• The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

  Ward Churchill

  People

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• Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large. Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Ideas, People, Intellectual

  "In Quest of Democracy". Essay by Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991.

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• Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination.

  Arthur Koestler

  Cutting, Reality, Imagination

  "A Challenge to 'Knights in Rusty Armor". The New York Times, February 14, 1943.

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• Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Peace, Military

  Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

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• If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.

  Erich Fromm

  Brother, Government, Liberty

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• The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Suicide, Class, Giving

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• The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is a process of discovery. We are looking for the meaning of life. No matter where you are, there are conflicts and dramas everywhere. It is the process of what it means to be a human being; how you react and are reacted upon, these inward and outer pressures. If you are writing with a direct cause in mind, you are writing propaganda. It's fatal for a fiction writer.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Drama, Writing, Mean

  "Nadine Gordimer on dividing fact from fiction" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2010.

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• What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Education, School, Mean

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• When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them

  Franklin P. Adams

  Witty, Mean, Intelligent

  Nods and Becks (1944) p. 3

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• Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

  Jeff Grubb

  Nails, Hammers, Looks

  Jeff Grubb, Gabriel Mesta, Tracy Hickman, Micky Neilson (2007). “The Starcraft Archive: An Anthology”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds

  Bill Moyers

  Equality, Thinking, Media Control

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• The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.

  William Colby

  War, Agency, Government

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• We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.

  Edward Bernays

  Small Numbers, Mind, Wire

  "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays (p. 37 - 38), 1928.

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• Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or in due time by the International Criminal Court of those who have engaged in aggression and propaganda for war.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Punishment, Criminals

  "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.

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• Propaganda rarely makes good art.

  Susan Sutherland Isaacs

  Art, Good Art

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