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• Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Gentleman, Answers, Ready

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• All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

  Terry Eagleton

  Moving, Simple, Adequate

  "Against The Grain". Book by Terry Eagleton, 1986.

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• The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.

  H. L. Mencken

  Educational, Simple, Ideas

  H. L. Mencken (2000). “H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism”, p.222, Regnery Publishing

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• Propaganda is necessary only for the sake of money!

  Sri Aurobindo

  Sake

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Lying, Enough Time, Bigs

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse.

  Edward Bernays

  Mind, Guarantees, May

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• Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Numbers, Resolution, Century

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• The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny.

  Michael Parenti

  Successful, Liberty, Fabric

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• I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian- Social movement, especially in Lueger's time achieved a certain virtuosity on this instrument, to which it owed many of its success.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Religious, Art

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Catholic, Purpose, Trouble

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• Their constant yelping about a free press means, with a few honorable exceptions, freedom to peddle scandal, crime, sex, sensationalism, hate, innuendo and the political and financial uses of propaganda. A newspaper is a business out to make money through advertising revenue. That is predicated on the circulation and you know what circulation depends on.

  Raymond Chandler

  Sex, Hate, Mean

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The Long Goodbye: A Novel”, p.216, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Lying, Believe, People

  Linda Ellerbee (1991). “Move on: adventures in the real world”, Putnam Pub Group

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• There's nothing so absurd
  that if you repeat it often enough,
  people will believe it.

  William James

  Believe, People, Enough

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• Muslims are the primary victims of ISIS. Muslims are the ones who want to do the most to defeat this ideology. It's important that we don't do their propaganda for them, by giving them the legitimacy that they crave.

  Dalia Mogahed

  Isis, Giving, Important

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• History is fables agreed upon.

  Voltaire

  Democracy, Fables

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• Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.

  Helen Mirren

  Purpose, Causes, Incredibles

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• It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

  Joseph Goebbels

  School, Political, Public Opinion

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• this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Giving, Diversity, Devil

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• Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.

  James A.C. Brown

  Thinking, People, Atheism

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• The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Religious, Atheism, Lessons

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1992). “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt”

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• In Northern Estonia, the Soviet authorities didn't have a recipe on how to fight against the popularity of Finnish TV. Audiences didn't want to watch hardcore Soviet propaganda.

  Jaak Kilmi

  Fighting, Watches, Estonia

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

  John Pilger

  War, Reading, Two

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• The mother tongue is propaganda.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mother, Tongue, Mother Tongue

  Marshall McLuhan (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.119, Routledge

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• The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Differences, Effectiveness

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological grounds to become a brake on the further dissemination of ideas.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, Organization, Ideas

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