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