“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”
― Lysander Spooner
“The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.”
― Ward Churchill
“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
“No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.”
― John F. Kennedy
“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, Towards A Canada Of Light
“Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”
― Criss Jami
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
― Howard Zinn
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