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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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..."
Charles T. Tart | If it is not in the media… it did not happen
in Charles T. Tart"If it is not in the media... it did not happen. If it did not happen, but is in the media... we believe it has happened."
Charles T. Tart
Richard Nixon | The American people don’t believe anything until they see it on television
in Richard Nixon"The American people don't believe anything until they see it on television."
Richard Nixon
Erich Limpach | believing yesterday’s lies as today’s truths
in Erich Limpach"If people continue to allow themselves to be talked into believing yesterday's lies as today's truths, then tomorrow's whip will make them painfully aware, too late, of the dangers that laziness of thought has in its wake."
Erich Limpach
Just.A.Thought | Being a “conspiracy theorist”
in Just.A.Thought"Being a "conspiracy theorist" is spending endless hours for years & years gathering as much information as possible from as many resources as possible and critically thinking about what that information means then having people who do nothing but watch TV tell you you're crazy."
Just.A.Thought
Walter Lippmann | a drifting apart of public opinion and published opinion
in Walter Lippmann"...a drifting apart of public opinion and published opinion when the selection rules of the journalists who have been brought into line largely coincide. This creates a consonance of reporting that acts like a confirmation to the audience (everyone says it, so it has to be right) and installs a stereotype-supported pseudo-environment"
Walter Lippmann
Prof. Rainer Mausfeld | The leading media as well as the mass media are business models
in Prof. Rainer Mausfeld"The leading media as well as the mass media are business models and serve no more to convey "truth" than the pharmaceutical industry serves to promote public health. Indoctrination is part of the essence of media."
Prof. Rainer Mausfeld
Prof. Christoph Degenhart | The broadcasters adopt government lines in an undifferentiated manner
in Professor Christoph Degenhart"In the portrayal of political processes, I often see a certain political one-sidedness. For example, when it comes to the topics of ecology or Europeanization, critics are always put in the right-wing corner. [....] The broadcasters adopt government lines in an undifferentiated manner. ARD and ZDF are increasingly acting as an acclamation forum for politics."
Professor Christoph Degenhart
Erich Fromm | Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable
in Erich Fromm"Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth."
Erich Fromm
John Edgar Hoover | a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists
in John Edgar Hoover"The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent."
John Edgar Hoover
William Egan Colby | The CIA controls everyone of significance in the major media
in William Egan Colby"The CIA controls everyone of significance in the major media, where it spent about 30% of its budget on covered press personnel and programs"
William Egan Colby
Albert Einstein | The masses are never militaristic
in Albert Einstein"The masses are never militaristic until their minds are poisoned by propaganda."
Albert Einstein
Erich Fromm | The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it
in Erich Fromm"The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it must convince people of this fiction and put to sleep their realistic, that is to say, critical, faculty of thought. Every thinking person knows the methods of propaganda, methods by which critical judgment is destroyed and the mind is lulled until it submits to clichés that stultify people because they make them dependent, depriving them of the ability to trust their eyes and their judgment. This function, in which they believe, blinds them to reality."
Erich Fromm