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'The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.'
— H. L. Mencken
'Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.'
— Mark Twain
The Mysterious Stranger
1916
'Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.'
— Joseph Goebbels
Nazi Propaganda Minister
'Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness.'
— George Orwell
author of the book 1984
'The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity — much less dissent.
'Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions...'
— Gore Vidal
The Decline and Fall of the American Empire
'In the media, the world is turned upside down. The Contras and the KLA are 'democratizers'; the lethal sanctions against (the people of) Iraq exist to deliver its people from their dictator; the destruction of Yugoslavia through aerial bombardment of civilians and their infrastructure is a 'humanitarian intervention.'
— Michelle Stoddard
CovertAction Quarterly magazine
'The great masses of the people... more easily fall victims to a big lie than a small one'
— Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
'You furnish the pictures and I will furnish the war.'
— William Randolph Hearst
Hearst was the owner of a chain of grossly dishonest, jingoistic newspapers. He had sent the famous artist Frederic Remington to Cuba to provide sketches for American newspaper readers of the Cuban insurrection against Spanish rule. When Remington arrived he found no insurrection happening. He wired Hearst, saying: 'Everything quiet. No trouble here. There will be no war.' Hearst wired back the notorious reply above.
'Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it....'
— General Douglas MacArthur
1957
'Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.'
— Herman Goering
Nazi Air Force (Luftwaffe) commander
at the Nuremberg Trials
'...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
'The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly...it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.'
— Joseph Goebbels
Nazi Propaganda Minister
'Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity... and I'm not sure about the former.'
— Albert Einstein
'One of the intentions of corporate-controlled media is to instill in people a sense of disempowerment, of immobilization and paralysis. Its outcome is to turn you into good consumers. It is to keep people isolated, to feel that there is no possibility for social change.'
— David Barsamian
journalist and publisher
MORE MORE INFO GO TO:
http://www.intellnet.org/resources/american_terrorism/Revealingquotes3.html
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