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• I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

  Alistair Cooke

  Believe, Hollywood, Factories

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• Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world, what Stevens called a 'mundo' and it takes a lot of time to orientate oneself in such a world. What we have to learn to do then, as teachers and militants of a poetic insurgency, is to encourage people to learn to love the difficulty of poetry. I simply do not understand much of the poetry that I love.

  Simon Critchley

  Teacher, Reading, Mean

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• In my opinion turkey is the most over-rated critter for eating purposes in kingdom come but the most striking example we have of the power of propaganda.

  Damon Runyon

  Power, Turkeys, Example

  Damon Runyon (1946). “Short Takes: Readers' Choice of the Best Columns of America's Favorite Newspaperman, Damon Runyon”

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• The second thing we have to do is to make sure that all of us think about how we approach our elections and our democracy not only to secure them from vote tampering, but also to make sure that we understand when propaganda is being churned through the system.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Democracy, Election

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• If [climate change ] became a serious proposal in the United States, there would be a huge propaganda onslaught by the business community, the energy corporations and many others, to try to frighten the population into opposing it - claiming that if they have it, all sorts of terrible things will happen, like you won't be able to heat your home, or whatever the story is.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, Community, Trying

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.

  Martin Amis

  Sorry, Believe, Hypnosis

  Martin Amis (2014). “The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000”, p.277, Vintage

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• The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Evil, Simplicity

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• As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

  Adolf Hitler

  Political, Doubt, Glimpse

  Adolf Hitler (1939). “Mein Kampf: Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated”

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• There has been a plan in effect since at least 1917 to create, an artificial Extraterrestrial threat to the planet Earth, so as to bring about a one-world, Luciferian Totalitarian socialist government. This Extraterrestrial propaganda has been promoted through movies, through books, in the newspapers; so as to create the idea in the public mind that this phenomena related to Extraterrestrials is real and that the threat is real.

  Milton William Cooper

  Real, Book, Socialist Government

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• Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda.

  Ward Churchill

  Add, Facts, Journalism

  Ward Churchill (1995). “Since predator came: notes from the struggle for American Indian liberation”, Artemis Communications Ltd

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• In sum, the purpose is to contest the popular view, because popular opinions are so frequently found to be untimely, misled (by propaganda), or plainly wrong.

  Humphrey B. Neill

  Views, Purpose, Opinion

  Humphrey Bancroft Neill (1963). “The Art of Contrary Thinking”, p.9, Caxton Press

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• It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Intelligent, Tasks

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• Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.

  Albert Speer

  Normal, Opinion, Sickness

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• Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Purpose, News, Should

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• When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Rights, People

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism at the State Department in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 19, 2015.

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• I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.

  Michael Crichton

  Media, Assumption, Mass

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• Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lying, Media, Editors

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.92

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• The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Gossip, Talent, Persuasion

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.629

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• All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Stupid, Numbers, People

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• An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.

  Bill Moyers

  Lying, Fighting, Media

  Bill Moyers (2008). “Moyers on Democracy”, p.218, Anchor

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• The clock is ticking. It's time to stand up. Reject the lesser evil and that propaganda. Reject the lesser evil. Fight for the greater good like our lives depend on it, because they do. We're running out of time. It's time to stand up.

  Jill Stein

  Running, Fighting, Clock Is Ticking

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

  Garry Kasparov

  Rehabilitation, Used, Type

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• Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.

  J. Paul Getty

  Dark, Pressure Groups, Focus

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• The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as "to direct the thought of most of the world" - primarily progressive American intellectuals, who had to be mobilized to come to the aid of Britain during World War I.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Agency, Tasks

  "How the Magna Carta became a Minor Carta, part 1" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2012.

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• The AMA puts the lives and well being of the American citizens well below it's own special interest...It deserves to be ignored, rejected, and forgotten. No amount of historical gymnastics can hide the public record of AMA opposition to virtually every major health reform in the past 50 years....The AMA has turned into a propaganda organ purveying 'medical politics' for deceiving the Congress, the people, and the doctors of America themselves.

  Edward Kennedy

  Dark, Gymnastics, Past

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