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• We actually need intelligent doubt and skepticism; they protect us against mistaken views and propaganda.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Intelligent, Views, Doubt

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• The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Children, Miracle

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• You know, what's interesting about Washington...It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second-nature.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Interesting, Guessing

  George W. Bush's Remarks at Presentation of Commander-In-Chief's Trophy, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 17, 2002.

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• The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.

  Ayn Rand

  Nails, Coffins, Economics

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.281, Penguin

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• It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

  George Orwell

  War, Fighting, Soldier

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they're not compatible.

  David Hare

  Creative, Different, Hue

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened."

  George Orwell

  War, Party, Government

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

  Gore Vidal

  Election Time, Action, Language

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.52, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it happens too quick. I think the historical background that build into our genes is different. American people has never been occupied. The deep sadness and sentimentality, the cultural background that relates to melodrama that we relate to and grow up with, the propaganda, I didn't imagine the difference is so big. It's a very interesting cultural phenomenon.

  Ang Lee

  Growing Up, Sadness, Thinking

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• All photography is propaganda.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Photograph

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• North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their indoctrination began in infancy, during the fourteen-hour days spent in factory day-care centers; that for the subsequent fifty years, every song, film, newspaper article, and billboard was designed to deify Kim Il-sung; that the country was hermetically sealed to keep out anything that might cast doubt on Kim Il-sung's divinity. Who could possibly resist?

  Barbara Demick

  Country, Song, Korea

  Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.42, Granta

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• Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

  Martin Parr

  Glamorous

  "The foibles of the world". Article by Benjamin Secher, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 27, 2011.

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• All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Art, Care, Used

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• All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, Vocabulary, Lasts

  "Pacifism and Philosophy" by Aldous Huxley, 1936.

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• But no matter how big the effort to push a propaganda line might be, climate change is bigger. This, undoubtedly and regrettably, is the biggest immediate long-term environmental challenge we face. A failure to concretely come to some policy outcome on climate change has not only a negative environmental impact but also social and economic consequences for us.

  Peter Garrett

  Impact, Long, Effort

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• Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as wildly individualistic and unbearably bright.

  Dallas Willard

  Powerful, Thinking, Intellectual

  Dallas Willard (2012). “Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God”, p.283, InterVarsity Press

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• Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Practice, Atheism, Socialism

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• One of the hopeful things that I've discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. The media could've stopped it if they had searched deep enough; if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda they could've stopped it.

  Julian Assange

  War, Lying, Past

  "WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg - Assange". Interview with Laura Emmett, www.rt.com. May 2, 2011.

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• the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, War, Lying

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• Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Special, Use, Literature

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• Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Stupid, Soviet Propaganda, Soviet

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 508, 1991.

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• Europe resolved a great problem-the problem of the Zionist danger. The Zionists, who constituted a strong political party in Europe, caused much disorder there. Since they had a lot of property and controlled an empire of propaganda, they made the European governments helpless.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Strong, Party, Europe

  Friday sermon on International Jerusalem Day, October 5, 2007.

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• When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Men, Jail

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• My view is Fox News is a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party and I don't comment on Fox News.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Views, News

  "Howard Dean Calls Fox News A 'Propaganda Outlet For The Republican Party'". ABC, www.adweek.com. June 12, 2005.

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• A past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back....The nation's marketplace of ideas is being poisoned by a propaganda company so blatant that Tokyo Rose would've quit....As with all the other nefariousness and slime of this, our worst presidency since James Buchanan, he [President Bush] is having it done for him, by proxy. Thus, the sandbag effort by Fox News Friday afternoon.

  Keith Olbermann

  Friday, Past, Ideas

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