"The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas."
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"Propaganda is necessary only for the sake of money!"
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"Given all of the anti-Muslim propaganda that's being disseminated by The American Nazi media, you have to be careful. It can stress you out."
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"There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it."
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"Could you do a liberal propaganda tool that would bore the bejesus out of people? No."
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"A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all."
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"They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function."
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"Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, as well as Abu Musab Zarqawi, have made it quite clear in their internal propaganda that they cannot win unless they can drive the Americans out. And they know that they can't do that there, so they've brought the battlefield to the halls of Congress."
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"Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals."
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"Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace."
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