Notable Quotable #18

Sep 13, 2022

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

- George Orwell

“Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.”

- Criss Jami, Killosophy

“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”

- Robert A. Heinlein, Revolt in 2100/Methuselah's Children

“Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.”

- Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass

“The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.”

- Jeannette Rankin

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

- Gil Courtemanche, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali