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“Back in the 1920s, the major manual of the public relations industry actually was titled Propaganda (in those days, people were a little bit more honest)”
- Noam Chomsky
“Back in the 1920s, the major manual of the public relations industry actually was titled Propaganda (in those days, people were a little bit more honest)”
- Noam Chomsky
“A speech is like a love affair. Any fool can start it, but to end it requires considerable skill.”
- Lord Mansfield
“…those who ply sordid trades, pimps and all such people, and those who lend small sums at high rates. For all these take more than they ought, and from the wrong sources. What is common to them is evidently a sordid love of gain…”
- Arisotle, Ethics
“The most hated sort (of wealth getting) and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange but not to increase at interest. And this term interest (tokos), which means the birth of money from money is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth, this is the most unnatural.”
- Aristotle, Politics
“The Magnitsky affair should not even be discussed outside of Russia. This is intolerable, and we will never accept this.”
- Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, 2013
“If you can fake sincerity, you got it made.”
- Variously attributed
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“There’s no such thing as society.”
- Margaret Thatcher
“In the morning and during the day it seems that the power of the human will rebels with its strongest energy against any attempt to impose upon it the will or opinion of another. On the other hand, in the evening it easily succumbs to the domination of a stronger will. Because really in such assemblies there is a contest between two opposite forces. The superior oratorical art of a man who has the compelling character of an apostle will succeed better in bringing around to a new way of thinking those who have naturally been subjected to a weakening of their forces of resistance rather than in converting those who are in full possession of their volitional and intellectual energies.”
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
“The State is a concept based on the power principle and a denial of responsibility. It is thus itself criminal… Its own blacker evils are hidden under a veil of hypocrisy, whitewashed by propaganda, and, when laid bare, covered by the raison d’etat, a term stretched to enrobe the basest ignominy.”
- Nicholas Freeling
“I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.”
- Aneurin Bevan
“No orator ever made an impression by appealing to men as to their plainest physical wants, except when he could allege that those wants were caused by some one`s tyranny. But thousands have made the greatest impression by appealing to some vague dream of glory, or empire, or nationality.”
- Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution, 1867
“It had all seemed so much a matter of course - digging up pits where grain had been hidden, seeing to it that none of these peasants could grind flour, bake bread or even draw water from their wells. He would have seen them in hell first - even if they had a dying child - rather than let them bake bread. And soon he was not moved, any more than by a tramcar in the city, at the familiar sight of the forlorn horse and cart going round the numbed villages at dawn, and the cry of the driver, as he knocked on shutters with his whip:
‘Any dead here?’
But before long, the cry changed to:
‘Anyone alive here?’ “
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle
“If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”
- W.C. Fields (alleged)
Have either of you got shoes?
