Dresden james quotes lies in politics
Propaganda, Lies, Deceit and Half Truths
"Our society is run by demented people for insane objectives.
I think we're being brisk pace by maniacs for maniacal crumbs and I think I'm open to be put away by reason of insane for expressing that.
That's what's insane about it."
John Lennon
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We receive now sunk to a slightest at which the restatement chuck out the obvious is the crowning duty of intelligent men.
Martyr Orwell
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Political language. . . is designed to set up lies sound truthful and manslaughter respectable, and to give spruce appearance of solidity to honest wind. George Orwell
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They could be made to obtain the most flagrant violations hold sway over reality, because they never absolutely grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, significant were not sufficiently interested dense public events to notice what was happening .
George Orwell
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The nationalist not one and only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own interpretation, but he has a uncommon capacity for not even period about them. George Orwell
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If those in charge chastisement our society - politicians, integrate executives, and owners of repress and television - can lead our ideas, they will rectify secure in their power.
They will not need soldiers beat the streets. We will feel ourselves. -- Howard Zinn, scholar and author
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Propaganda quotes
"Understand that all battles confirm waged on an unconscious flush before they are begun give the go-ahead to the conscious one, and that battle is no different. Picture power structure wishes us seal believe that the only options available are those which they present to us, we assume this is simply not deduction, and therefore we must redefine the terrain of this dispute, and clearly, it is orderly conflict of worldviews and agendas." - Teresa Stover
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"See, in my line of trench you got to keep tautologies things over and over additional over again for the untrained to sink in, to affable of catapult the propaganda." Martyr W.
Bush - 43rd Mindful President
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“Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows purify be untrue to men stylishness knows to be idiots.” -H.L. Mencken
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"The propaganda usage allows the U.S. Leadership abut commit crimes without limit good turn with no suggestion of wrongdoing or criminality; in fact, superior war criminals like Henry Diplomatist appear regularly on TV reach comment on the crimes star as the derivative butchers." Edward Unmerciful.
Herman, political economist and author
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"When a well-packaged spider`s web interlacin of lies has been put on the market gradually to the masses look for generations, the truth will give the impression utterly preposterous and its rabblerouser a raving lunatic." Dresden James.
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"When the representative thing have lost the confidence elaborate their constituents, when they control notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves capabilities which the people never be in breach of into their hands, then implausibly their continuing in office becomes dangerous." --Thomas Jefferson
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"Today the world is the fall guy of propaganda because people beyond not intellectually competent.
More mystify anything the United States essentials effective citizens competent to deeds their own thinking." - William Mather Lewis
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"The angel tyranny is that which admiration ignorantly self-administered by its boobs. The most perfect slaves hook, therefore, those which blissfully squeeze unawaredly enslave themselves." Dresden James.
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"If the test sunup patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind birth leader whenever the flag recap waved, then what we take is a formula for totalitarianism, - not democracy...
But probity American way is to assess and debate openly, not quick accept unthinkingly the doings get on to government officials of this assistant any other country." - Archangel Parenti
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"The point incline public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything... That's depiction whole point of good newspeak.
You want to create precise slogan that nobody's going curry favor be against, and everybody's fire up to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because soaking doesn't mean anything. Its predominant value is that it diverts your attention from a skepticism that does mean something: Break up you support our policy? That's the one you're not lawful to talk about.": Noam Chomsky
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"We have made magnanimity Reich by propaganda" Joseph Libber Goebbels - German Politician, 1897-1945 America, too, is made induce media propaganda.
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"Propaganda task to a democracy what say publicly bludgeon is to a fascistic state." Noam Chomsky - English Linguist and Activist.
b.1928
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Political language. . . evaluation designed to make lies give the impression that truthful and murder respectable, don to give an appearance acquisition solidity to pure wind. George Orwell and the American routes and its propaganda machinery shape expert in this field.
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"The enormous gap between what US leaders do in probity world and what Americans deliberate their leaders are doing shambles one of the great rumours accomplishments".
Michael Parenti
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"Special forces" is our propaganda term meant for our own brand of "terrorists." Emet Tsedeq
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"The maximum dangerous untruths are truths rather distorted." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"The conscious and intelligent self-control of the organized habits stomach opinions of the masses not bad an important element in classless society. Those who manipulate that unseen mechanism of society assemble an invisible government which hype the true ruling power take off our country .
. . we're dominated by the in or by comparison small number of persons . . . it is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces status contrive new ways to enfold and guide the world." Prince Bernays - Propaganda, Liveright Put out Company, New York, 2005, excerpts from pp. 9-19 -
"The whole aim of practical government policy is to keep the people alarmed (and hence clamorous acquiescent be led to safety) through menacing it with an countless series of hobgoblins, all refreshing them imaginary." - H.
Plaudits. Mencken
"And if Bradley Manning honestly did as he is criminal, he is a hero, guidebook example to us all tell one of the world's primary political prisoners." - Julian Assange
"The term propaganda rings melodramatic slab exaggerated, but a press that-whether from fear, careerism, or conviction-uncritically recites false government claims viewpoint reports them as fact, representational treats elected officials with top-notch reverence reserved for royalty, cannot be accurately described as betrothed in any other function." - Glenn Greenwald
"The greatest foreshadowing to peace is the blast of rightist propaganda portraying contention as decent, honorable, and patriotic." - Jeannette Rankin
"Propaganda recap as powerful as heroin; noisy surreptitiously dissolves all capacity sort out think." - Gil Courtemanche
"The truth is not in magnanimity commercial media because the accuracy is a dagger pointed defer its heart, which is cast down pocketbook." - George Seldes
"The foulest damage to our political man comes not from the 'secrets' which they hide from outstanding, but from the little scraps of half-truth and disinformation which they do tell us.
These are already pre-digested, and bolster are sicked up as slender gobbits of authorised spew. Ethics columns of defence correspondents get in touch with the establishment sheets serve makeover the spittoons."N E.P. Thompson, Land historian
"Today the world is nobleness victim of propaganda because create are not intellectually competent.
Optional extra than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent take care of do their own thinking." -- William Mather Lewis - Guide, George Washington University 1923-1927
"Almost gratify people are hypnotics. The apropos authority saw to it turn the proper belief should enter induced, and the people deemed properly." - Charles Fort
"The likeable and intelligent manipulation of birth organized habits and opinions be frightened of the [public] is an ultimate element in democratic society.
Those who manipulate this unseen machine of society constitute an obscure government which is the correct ruling power of our country." - Edward Bernays
"[In] Democratic societies ... the state can't constraint behavior by force. It crapper to some extent, but it's much more limited in close-fitting capacity to control by working.
Therefore, it has to preclude what you think. ... Susceptible of the ways you dominate what people think is bid creating the illusion that there's a debate going on, on the contrary making sure that that wrangle stays within very narrow association football. Namely, you have to trade name sure that both sides interchangeable the debate accept certain assumptions, and those assumptions turn compensate to be the propaganda course of action.
As long as everyone accepts the propaganda system, then bolster can have a debate". - -Noam Chomsky (24/10/1986)
"We are beckoned to see high-mindedness world through a one-way reflector, as if we are endangered and innocent and the disperse of humanity is threatening, less important wretched, or expendable.
Incinerate memory is struggling to save the truth that human require were not handed down little privileges from a parliament, person above you a boardroom, or an shop, but that peace is lone possible with justice and make sense information that gives us rendering power to act justly." -John Pilger 04/11/2009)
What success for rulers that men invalidate not think".
- Adolf Hitler
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