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• It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.

  Noam Chomsky

  Agency, Media, Moments

  "Noam Chomsky on Media’s “Shameful Moment” in Gaza & How a U.S. Shift Could End the Occupation". "Democracy Now" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2014.

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• Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

  John Dryden

  Mind, Liberty, Libertarian

  John Dryden (1870). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden”, p.230

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• That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

  Alexander Haig

  Trust, Lying, Government

  "Would I Lie To You?" by Leigh W. Rutledge, 1998.

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• Mass delusion is the result of the effort. Propaganda is one of the techniques. But it mentioned things like you create a consensus of something that's totally absurd. You get people believing something totally absurd, however that's done, and then the people with common sense come along and say, "No, no, no. That's totally wrong," and they end up being the new kooks and weirdos. They are the ones society thinks are cockeyed and weird.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

  Jimmy Wales

  Information Knowledge, Hands, People

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• The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor, which privileges the rights of investors and lenders, those of people being incidental. In accord with this usage, those who favor a different form of international integration, which privileges the rights of human beings, become "anti-globalist."

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, People, Favors

  Interview with Sniježana Matejčić, June 2005.

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• The propaganda machine is endless. Religion, media and schools spew intentional lies and misinformation about proper human-to-animal relationships.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Lying, School, Animal

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don't-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one.

  Joost Meerloo

  Two, Differences, Mind

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• It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

  George Orwell

  Religious, Art, Book

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• The truth is that the newspaper is not a place for information to be given, rather it is just hollow content, or more than that, a provoker of content. If it prints lies about atrocities, real atrocities are the result.

  Karl Kraus

  Real, Lying, Atrocities

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• The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Action, Authority

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.583, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary, and to grant permission for reading forbidden books, but also to supervise, ex officio, books that are being published, and to pass sentence on such as deserve to be prohibited.

  Pope Pius XII

  Book, Reading, Tasks

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• The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government Lies, Political, Deceit

  Glenn Greenwald (2007). “A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency”, p.119, Crown

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• It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.

  Doris Lessing

  Believe, Duration, Empires

  Doris May Lessing (1983). “Documents relating to the sentimental agents in the Volyen Empire”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

  Robert Capa

  Photography, Truth Is, Best Picture

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• Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy's house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded - after all, the cop was protecting us.

  Gerry Spence

  Cheer, Hero, House

  "Give Me Liberty! Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century". Book by Gerry Spence, September 15, 1998.

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• I believe that competition in the future will not be only an advertising competition between individual products or between big associations, but that it will in addition be a competition of propaganda.

  Edward Bernays

  Believe, Competition, Association

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.63, Lulu.com

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• But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Effort, Patterns

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them

  Jacques Ellul

  Able, Certain, Evaluate

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• All news is lies and all propaganda is disguised as news.

  Willi Munzenberg

  Lying, Media, News

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• The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Thinking, Evil, Liberty

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.89, TAN Books

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• ... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement.

  Geoffrey Hill

  Tyrants, Mind, Language

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• The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

  Unknown

  Enemy, German History, Nazism

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• It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Honesty, Drug, Essentials

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest back control of the business neutralised most of the adverse repercussions on me from an unwilling association with their propaganda.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Determination, Events

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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