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Baron Arthur Ponsonby | 10 principles of war propaganda
in Arthur PonsonbyWir wollen den Krieg nicht
Das gegnerische Lager trägt die Verantwortung
Der Führer des Gegners ist ein Teufel
Wir kämpfen für eine gute Sache
Der Gegner kämpft mit unerlaubten Waffen
Der Gegner begeht mit Absicht Grausamkeiten, wir nur versehentlich
Unsere Verluste sind gering, die des Gegners enorm
Künstler und Intellektuellen unterstützen unsere Sache
Unsere Mission ist heilig
Wer unsere Berichterstattung in Zweifel zieht, ist ein Verräter.
Vladimir Lenin | Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed?
in Vladimir Lenin"Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?"
Vladimir Lenin
Hermann Rotermund | short devotional in a living room chapel
in Hermann Rotermund"The tone is gently authoritarian, leaving no doubt that this is the way the world is and no other way [....]Proclaimers of unassailable truths [....] The broadcast gives the impression of a short devotional in a living room chapel."
Hermann Rotermund
Christine Prayon | Welke & Co. made “atmosphere against those who think differently”
in Birte Schneider, Christine Prayon"I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the way the major socially defining issues have been handled since Corona. I've also talked to the people in charge there and emphasized that I don't want to participate in exposing dissenters to ridicule. Satire must not participate in narrowing the discourse. And now this is exactly what is happening again with the war in Ukraine. Narratives and positions of groups that are high up in the social hierarchy are being repeated incessantly, and at the same time the mood is being set against those who think differently. In my opinion, this no longer has anything to do with satire."
Christine Prayon
Hanns Joachim Friedrichs | You can tell a good journalist
in Hanns Joachim Friedrichs"You can tell a good journalist by the fact that he doesn't get mean about a cause, even a good cause."
Hanns Joachim Friedrichs
Robbie Williams | We’re in a post-truth world
in Robbie Williams"We're in a post-truth world where you can't believe the media, you can't believe Big Pharma, you can't believe politicians, you can't believe what you're eating, you can't believe yourself. Since we've existed, (if) there is a time where this whole empire could fall, it's now. Of course these things are going to arise because we can't trust anybody or anything. And I personally just believe and invest in my wife and my kids and my family. And yeah, I believe in them,"
Robbie Williams
Volker Bräutigam | Tagesschau, is often the halal to attempted dumbing down of the people
in Volker Bräutigam"The announcement 'This is the First German Television with the Tagesschau' is often the halal to attempted dumbing down of the people."
Volker Bräutigam
Dr. Jörn Berninger | politically or medially predetermined thought prison
in Dr. Jörn Berninger"There are always events that are played up in the media and lead to more and more people subscribing to the opinion given from the outside. This in turn leads them to build up beliefs that become a thought prison. If one is stuck in such a politically or medially predetermined thought prison, one begins to identify with it and hardly finds a way out. You have to look for a loophole to break out of this thought prison."
Dr. Jörn Berninger
Winston Churchill | There is only published opinion
in Winston Churchill"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."
Winston Churchill
Niklas Luhmann | the media don’t depict reality, they create it
in Niklas Luhmann"Sure, the media don't depict reality, they create it! And that's why we need counter-publicity!"
Niklas Luhmann
Paul Felix Lazarsfeld | The power of radio
in Paul Felix Lazarsfeld"The power of radio can be compared only with the power of the atomic bomb."
Paul Felix Lazarsfeld
Nicolás Gómez Dávila | In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness
in Nicolás Gómez Dávila"In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know."
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Prof. Reiner Mausfeld | A ‘war against X’ decreed from above
in Prof. Rainer Mausfeld"A 'war against X' decreed from above - be it against 'terror' or against a pandemic - is never about what is declared to be fought. All that is sold here as a war against a threat must not be successful at all, because its success for the economic and political centers of power lies precisely in not being successful and in remaining as a means of generating fear and securing domination."
Prof. Reiner Mausfeld
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The most powerful figment of the imagination is public opinion
in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"The most powerful figment of the imagination is public opinion: no one knows exactly who makes it, no one has ever met it personally, but everyone lets themselves be tyrannized by it!"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Max Goldt | This newspaper is an organ of infamy
in Max Goldt"This newspaper is an organ of infamy. It is wrong to read it. Someone who contributes to this newspaper is absolutely unacceptable socially. It would be wrong to be friendly or even polite to one of its editors. One must be as unkind to them as the law will just allow. They are bad people who do wrong."
Max Goldt
Vince Ebert | They would become afraid of something else virtually overnight
in Vince Ebert"I'm pretty sure: if the climate change thing was miraculously solved, many Germans wouldn't breathe a sigh of relief. They would become afraid of something else virtually overnight."
Vince Ebert
Tony Benn | I think there are two ways in which people are controlled
in Anthony „Tony“ Neil Wedgwood Benn, Tony Benn"I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all, frighten people, and secondly, demoralise them. An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern. And I think there’s an element in the thinking of some people... ‘We don’t want people to be educated, healthy and confident, because they would get out of control."
Tony Benn
Edwin Grant Conklin | Dictators seek to control men’s thoughts
in Edwin Grant Conklin“Dictators seek to control men’s thoughts as well as their bodies and so they attempt to dictate science, education and religion. But dictated education is usually propaganda, dictated history is often mythology, dictated science is pseudo-science.”
Edwin Grant Conklin
Edward Bernays | If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind
in Edward Bernays"If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it."
Edward Bernays
Volker Pispers | What do you think would be going on here
in Volker Pispers"What do you think would be going on here, if more people realized what was going on?"
Volker Pispers
Dave Smith | basic human liberties
in Dave Smith"If you believe that the most basic human liberties ought to be contingent on taking a product from a giant pharmaceutical company then you are not liberal or left wing. You’re not a conservative or patriotic. There is only one word to describe you and that is Fascist."
Dave Smith
Will Spencer | an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober
in Will Spencer"If your answer to every failure of government is more government, you are like an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober."
Will Spencer
Robert A. Heinlein | There is no worse tyranny
in Robert A. Heinlein"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."
Robert A. Heinlein
Gustave Le Bon | The masses have never thirsted after truth
in Gustave Le Bon"The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will."
Gustave Le Bon
Jean-Luc Godard | Cannes is a propaganda tool
in Jean-Luc Godard"Zelensky's intervention at the Cannes festival goes without saying if you look at it from the angle of what is called "staging": a bad actor, a professional comedian, under the eye of other professionals in their own professions. I believe I must have said something along these lines a long time ago. It therefore took the staging of yet another world war and the threat of another catastrophe for us to know that Cannes is a propaganda tool like any other. They propagate Western aesthetics whilst thinking it is not a big deal, but it is just that. The truth of the images is only advancing slowly. Now imagine that the war itself is this aesthetic deployed during a world festival, whose stakeholders are the states in conflict, or rather “interests”, broadcasting representations of which we are all spectators for… you, like me. We often say “conflict of interest”, which is a tautology. There is no conflict, big or small, unless there is interest. Brutus, Nero, Biden, or Putin, Constantinople, Iraq or Ukraine, not much has changed, apart from the mass murder."
Jean-Luc Godard | "Cannes is a propaganda tool like any other. They propagate Western aesthetics..."