Tuesday, December 01, 2015

On Propaganda

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." Saul Bellow

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." Charles Mackay

"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state." Noam Chomsky

"One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." George Orwell

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