#pagan

We're here. We're weird. Get used to it. ↗

— John Yohalem

#humor #pagan #humor

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bandwagon #compassion #culture #fads #flattery

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#journalism #propaganda #war #journalist

We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN. ↗

— B.W. Powe

#propaganda #reality #truth #business

The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#propaganda #reading #thinking #business

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them. ↗

— Criss Jami

#deceived #envy #false #falsehood #fool

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told. ↗

— Ward Churchill

#media #propaganda #freedom

this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#literature #writing #propaganda

A całą tę sprawę, tak spokojnie i godnie poprowadzoną, minister uznał za sukces, zaś nasza prasa określiła jako zwycięstwo. Tak zawsze jakoś minister kierował, że wszystko na sukces wychodziło i dobrze było, a baliśmy się, że gdyby ministra onego nie stało, wnet by smętkiem powiało, co się potem sprawdziło, kiedy nam go ubyło. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuściński

#political-maneuvering #political-mechanisms #totalitarian-system-mechanisms #totalitarianism

All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another. ↗

— Selma Dabbagh

#politics #propaganda