"And now you do what they told ya"
"(Now you're under control)"
what you see on television is the vision they want to tell you
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"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media."
--William Colby, former CIA Director, cited by Dave Mcgowan, Derailing Democracy
"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda" - Hannah Arendt |
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"One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda."
- General Douglas MacArthur |
"And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic."
-Robert Welch |
"By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise."
-Adolf Hitler |
"It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale."
- Jacques Ellul |
"I was never aware of any other option but to question everything."
"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. "
- Noam Chomsky | The "father of modern linguistics", a major figure in analytic philosophy, the author of over 100 books, the eighth most cited source of all time, and is considered the "most cited living author".[12][13][14][15]
"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. "
- Noam Chomsky | The "father of modern linguistics", a major figure in analytic philosophy, the author of over 100 books, the eighth most cited source of all time, and is considered the "most cited living author".[12][13][14][15]