#propaganda

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The bigger the lie, the more believable it becomes to the average Arab citizen. Thus, Arab media never fail to be less than outrageous. They blamed the defeat on none other than Israel, as though self-defense and self-preservation was not a right to be exercised by the Jewish enemy.


Nonie Darwish


#israel #propaganda #propaganda

Anything artistic should have some ambiguity to it. And, uh, you know, if there's only one way of interpreting it, it's probably closing in on propaganda. So, you know, it was just examining a world in which things are very desensitized, and it was sort of even asking the question of "what is peace?" really, because, you know, there is no static condition at any given time, that's just an illusion, and so peace must be more about the ideal of peace, and working towards it on a continual basis, and valuing the idea of peace.


Lindsey Buckingham


#morals #peace #peacekeeper #propaganda

Usually I spare myself from the news, because if it’s not propaganda, then it’s one threat or another exaggerated to the point of absurdity, or it’s the tragedy of storm-quake-tsunami, of bigotry and oppression misnamed justice, of hatred passed off as righteousness and honor called dishonorable, all jammed in around advertisements in which a gecko sells insurance, a bear sells toilet tissue, a dog sells cars, a gorilla sells investment advisers, a tiger sells cereal, and an elephant sells a drug that will improve your lung capacity, as if no human being in America any longer believes any other human being, but trusts only the recommendations of animals.


Dean Koontz


#advertising #news #propaganda #television #tv

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. 


Ernest Hemingway


#war #propaganda

A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become.


Saul Bellow


#characterization #propaganda

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.


Hannah Arendt


#elite #itself #masses #mob #momentum

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.


William Blum


#dictatorship #propaganda #violence

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.


Jerry Falwell


#soviet #textbooks

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


Lindsey Buckingham


#everything #going #now #propaganda

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.


Noam Chomsky


#consume #culture #decisions #feel #helpless