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Fidel Castro: When the Great Patriotic War broke out, Russian citizens defended their country like Spartans; underestimating them was the worst mistake of the United States and Europe. Their closest allies, the Chinese, who like the Russians won their victory on the same principles, are today the most dynamic economic force on earth. Countries want yuan and not dollars to acquire goods and technologies and increase their trade. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5653


Voltaire: Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5654



Adam Smith: The landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for the natural produce of the earth. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5656


Plutarch: I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5657


Bertrand Russell: Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5658



Edward Bernays: It is not necessary for the politician to be the slave of the public's group prejudices, if he can learn how to mold the mind of the voters in conformity with his own ideas of public welfare and public service. The important thing for the statesman of our age is not so much to know how to please the public, but to know how to sway the public. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5659


Edward Bernays: No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5660


Edward Bernays: The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect, emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey news, it seeks to purvey entertainment. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5661





Edward Bernays: If you can influence the leaders, either with or without their conscious cooperation, you automatically influence the group which they sway. But men do not need to be actually gathered together in a public meeting or in a street riot, to be subject to the influences of mass psychology. Because man is by nature gregarious he feels himself to be member of a herd, even when he is alone in his room with the curtains drawn. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5664


Edward Bernays: As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5665


Edward Bernays: In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5666


Edward Bernays: In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5667


Edward Bernays: Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5668



Edward Bernays: Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents and opponents of every propaganda, both of whom are equally eager to convince the majority. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5669

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Noam Chomsky: The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5671


Noam Chomsky: The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5672





Noam Chomsky: Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5675


Noam Chomsky: It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5676



Noam Chomsky: A captured pirate was brought before Alexander the Great. “How dare you molest the sea?” asked Alexander. “How dare you molest the whole world?” the pirate replied, and continued: “Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief; you, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5678



Noam Chomsky: The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable - if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5679



Noam Chomsky: The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5681




Noam Chomsky: Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5684