#prop

Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think. ↗

— Gil Courtemanche

#propaganda #propaganda

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery. ↗

— Douglas Coop

#charisma #civil-disobedience #loaded-language #power #propaganda

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. ↗

— George Orwell

#propaganda #rewriting-history #understanding

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#hype #ignorance #indoctrination #influence #power

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#passion #reason-and-judgment #soul #the-prophet #judgment

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#empathy #intuition #prophet #wisdom #intuition

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#politics #propaganda

It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise. ↗

— Joseph Goebbels

#propaganda

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as engaged in any other function. ↗

— Glenn Greenwald

#fear #iraq-war #journalism #lies #media