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		<title>Hoffer, Eric -- Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 261 (1955)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much of man&#8217;s thinking is propaganda of his appetites.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Much of man&#8217;s thinking is propaganda of his appetites.</p>
<br><b>Eric Hoffer</b> (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman<br><i>Passionate State of Mind</i>, Aphorism 261 (1955) 
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		<title>Franklin, Benjamin -- (Spurious)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself. Not found in the recorded works of Franklin, nor of Napoleon Bonaparte (to whom it is also attributed). The number of variants is an indicator this is an unconfirmed attribution: &#8220;&#8230; who the enemy is&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.</p>
<br><b>Benjamin Franklin</b> (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist<br>(Spurious) 
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Not found in the recorded works of Franklin, nor of <a href="/author/napoleon-bonaparte/">Napoleon Bonaparte</a> (to whom it is also attributed).

The number of variants is an indicator this is an unconfirmed attribution:<br><ul>
	<li>"... who the enemy is" or "... who your enemy is."</li>
	<li>"... you figure it out ..."</li>
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The term "bad guy" is an Americanism from the early 20th Century (the OED dates it to <a href="https://www.oed.com/dictionary/bad-guy_n?tab=meaning_and_use#114693107100">1932</a>; Dictionary.com to the <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bad-guy#:~:text=Play%20Video-,Etymology,-Origin%20of%20bad">early 1920s</a>). But even if one uses the "enemy" variant, this sounds unlike either Franklin or Napoleon.<br><ul>
	<li>Despite his skeptical nature, Franklin did not speak out against propagandistic influences on war (or revolution). Indeed, he was a skilled, if subtle, propagandist himself. Nor did he object to "government" in general (he would have attacked "the Crown" or "Parliament") nor any war that the British government had declared.</li>
	<li>Napoleon, as self-appointed Emperor of France (and war-maker, though most of his conquests were a result of other countries declaring war on him) would not have made the first half of this phrase, as he <em>was</em> the government. Nor, as one whose regime depended on propaganda, would he have suggested people decide for themselves who the true enemy is.</li>
	<li>Neither man, as a rule, wrote their various aphorisms in the second person ("you"). At most they might have used "one"; more often, it would have been "a man" or some third person construction.</li>
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The quotation is occasionally attributed to Susan Sarandon. While she did use it (e.g., at a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1b5ku88/susan_sarandons_propalestinian_speech_war_is_when/">pro-Palestinian speech</a>), she attributed it in turn to Napoleon.
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		<title>Orwell, George -- Essay (1942-08), &#8220;Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 2, New Road (1943-06)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[But unfortunately the truth about atrocities is far worse than that they are lied about and made into propaganda. The truth is that they happen. The fact often adduced as a reason for scepticism &#8212; that the same horror stories come up in war after war &#8212; merely makes it rather more likely that these [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But unfortunately the truth about atrocities is far worse than that they are lied about and made into propaganda. The truth is that they happen. The fact often adduced as a reason for scepticism &#8212; that the same horror stories come up in war after war &#8212; merely makes it rather more likely that these stories are true. </p>
<br><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>Essay (1942-08), &#8220;Looking Back on the Spanish War</i>, ch. 2, <i>New Road</i> (1943-06) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/looking-back-on-the-spanish-war/#:~:text=But%20unfortunately%20the,stories%20are%20true." target="_blank">Source</a>)
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		<title>Orwell, George -- Essay (1942-08), &#8220;Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 2, New Road (1943-06)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official war propaganda, with its disgusting hypocrisy and self-righteousness, always tends to make thinking people sympathize with the enemy.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Official war propaganda, with its disgusting hypocrisy and self-righteousness, always tends to make thinking people sympathize with the enemy. </p>
<br><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>Essay (1942-08), &#8220;Looking Back on the Spanish War</i>, ch. 2, <i>New Road</i> (1943-06) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/looking-back-on-the-spanish-war/#:~:text=official%20war%20propaganda%2C%20with%20its%20disgusting%20hypocrisy%20and%20self%2Drighteousness%2C%20always%20tends%20to%20make%20thinking%20people%20sympathize%20with%20the%20enemy." target="_blank">Source</a>)
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		<title>Orwell, George -- Essay (1942-08), &#8220;Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 2, New Road (1943-06)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[But what impressed me then, and has impressed me ever since, is that atrocities are believed in or disbelieved in solely on grounds of political predilection. Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But what impressed me then, and has impressed me ever since, is that atrocities are believed in or disbelieved in solely on grounds of political predilection. Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.</p>
<br><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>Essay (1942-08), &#8220;Looking Back on the Spanish War</i>, ch. 2, <i>New Road</i> (1943-06) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/looking-back-on-the-spanish-war/#:~:text=But%20what%20impressed%20me%20then%2C%20and%20has%20impressed%20me%20ever%20since%2C%20is%20that%20atrocities%20are%20believed%20in%20or%20disbelieved%20in%20solely%20on%20grounds%20of%20political%20predilection.%20Everyone%20believes%20in%20the%20atrocities%20of%20the%20enemy%20and%20disbelieves%20in%20those%20of%20his%20own%20side%2C%20without%20ever%20bothering%20to%20examine%20the%20evidence." target="_blank">Source</a>)
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		<title>Orwell, George -- Essay (1941-09), &#8220;The Art of Donald McGill,&#8221; Horizon Magazine</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. It has to demand faultless discipline and self-sacrifice, it must expect its subjects to work hard, pay their taxes, and be faithful to their wives, it must assume that men think it glorious to die on the battlefield [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. It has to demand faultless discipline and self-sacrifice, it must expect its subjects to work hard, pay their taxes, and be faithful to their wives, it must assume that men think it glorious to die on the battlefield and women want to wear themselves out with child-bearing. The whole of what one may call official literature is founded on such assumptions.</p>
<br><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>Essay (1941-09), &#8220;The Art of Donald McGill,&#8221; <i>Horizon</i> Magazine 
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		<title>Euripides -- Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 1186ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Arrowsmith (1958)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HECUBA: The clear actions of a man, Agamemnon, should speak louder than any words. good words should get their goodness from our lives and nowhere else; the evil we do should show, a rottenness that festers in our speech and what we say, in capable of being glozed with a film of pretty words. There [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="hangingindent">HECUBA: <span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">The clear actions of a man,<br />
Agamemnon, should speak louder than any words.<br />
good words should get their goodness from our lives<br />
and nowhere else; the evil we do should show,<br />
a rottenness that festers in our speech<br />
and what we say, in capable of being glozed<br />
with a film of pretty words.<br />
<span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">There are men, I know,<br />
sophists who make a science of persuasion,<br />
glozing evil with the slick of loveliness;<br />
but in the end a speciousness will show.<br />
The imposters are punished; not one escapes<br />
his death.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="hangingindent">[ἙΚΆΒΗ: Ἀγάμεμνον, ἀνθρώποισιν οὐκ ἐχρῆν ποτε<br />
τῶν πραγμάτων τὴν γλῶσσαν ἰσχύειν πλέον:<br />
ἀλλ᾽, εἴτε χρήστ᾽ ἔδρασε, χρήστ᾽ ἔδει λέγειν,<br />
εἴτ᾽ αὖ πονηρά, τοὺς λόγους εἶναι σαθρούς,<br />
καὶ μὴ δύνασθαι τἄδικ᾽ εὖ λέγειν ποτέ.<br />
σοφοὶ μὲν οὖν εἰσ᾽ οἱ τάδ᾽ ἠκριβωκότες,<br />
ἀλλ᾽ οὐ δύνανται διὰ τέλους εἶναι σοφοί,<br />
κακῶς δ᾽ ἀπώλοντ᾽: οὔτις ἐξήλυξέ πω.]</p>
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<br><b>Euripides</b> (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist<br><i>Hecuba</i> [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 1186ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Arrowsmith (1958)] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/euripidesiiihecu00euri/page/66/mode/2up?q=%22clear+actions+of+men%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Hecuba to Agamemnon, after Polymestor tried to defend his actions in murdering her son and stealing the Trojan treasure.<br><br>

(<a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0097%3Acard%3D1187#:~:text=%E1%BC%88%CE%B3%CE%AC%CE%BC%CE%B5%CE%BC%CE%BD%CE%BF%CE%BD%2C%20%E1%BC%80%CE%BD%CE%B8%CF%81%CF%8E%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BD,%E1%BC%90%CE%BE%CE%AE%CE%BB%CF%85%CE%BE%CE%AD%20%CF%80%CF%89.">Source (Greek)</a>). Alternate translations: <br><br>

<blockquote>O Agamemnon, never ought the tongue <br>
To have a greater influence o'er mankind <br>
Than actions; but whoever hath done well<br>
Ought to speak well; and he whose deeds are base,<br>
To use unseemly language, nor find means<br>
By specious words to colour o'er injustice.<br>
Full wise indeed are they to whom such art<br>
Is most familiar: but to stand the test<br>
Of time not wise enough; for they all perish,<br>
Not one of them e'er scapes.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/nineteentragedi01wodhgoog/page/52/mode/2up?q=%22never+ought+the+tongue%22">Wodhull</a> (1809)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Agamemnon, it never were fitting among men that the tongue should have greater force than actions. But if a man has acted well, well should he speak; if on the other hand basely, his words likewise should be unsound, and never ought he to be capable of speaking unjust things well. Perhaps indeed they who have brought these things to a pitch of accuracy are accounted wise, but they can not endure wise unto the end, but perish vilely, nor has any one yet escaped this.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://topostext.org/work/38#:~:text=Agamemnon%2C%20it%20never,yet%20escaped%20this.">Edwards</a> (1826)] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Agamemnon, never should this thing have been,<br>
That words with men should more avail than deeds,<br>
But good deeds should with reasonings good be paired,<br>
And caitiff deed be ranged by baseless plea,<br>
And none avail to gloze injustice o'er.<br>
There be whose craft such art hath perfected;<br>
Yet cannot they be cunning to the end:<br>
Foully they perish: never one hath 'scaped.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tragedies_of_Euripides_(Way)/Hecuba#:~:text=Agamemnon%2C%20never%20should,one%20hath%20%27scaped.">Way</a> (Loeb) (1894)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Agamemnon, never ought the tongues of men<br>
To plead more eloquently than the truth.<br>
Good men should prove good speakers, and the bad,<br>
Their very argument grown rank, should find<br>
No specious words to colour evil deeds.<br>
Oh, they are strict professors of the art,<br>
And they are wise; yet in the end of all,<br>
Not wise enough. They perish. None escapes.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b290571&seq=62&q1=%22never+ought+the+tongues%22">Sheppard</a> (1924)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Never ought words to have outweighed deeds in this world, Agamemnon. No! if a man's deeds were good, so should his words have been; if, on the other hand, evil, his words should have been unsound, instead of its being possible at times to speak injustice well. There are, it is true, clever persons, who have made a science of this, but their cleverness cannot last for ever; a miserable end awaits them; no one ever yet escaped.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0098%3Acard%3D1187#:~:text=Never%20ought%20words,ever%20yet%20escaped.">Coleridge</a> (1938)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab"><span class="tab">Agamemnon, <br>
A man should talk as he acts.<br>
Good speaks for itself -- <br>
The best make bad liars.<br>
The opposite is also true,<br>
Though it ought not to be.<br>
Men with brains can conceal<br>
Whatever they want concealed.<br>
But the brain grows weary.<br>
A bad end's in.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hecuba/mRZLAQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22agamemnon%20a%20man%20should%22">McGuinness</a> (2004)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Agamemnon, men shouldn't believe a speech counts for far more than actions ever did. If a man is good in deed, he's good in word. But bad deeds make a man's word rotten, too, and he can't give his injustice a fair gloss. They're clever with their tongues so finely tuned but you couldn't call them clever in the end. Their punishment will come. No one escapes.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hecuba/94JBBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=hecuba%20%22agamemnon%20men%20shouldn%27t%22">Harrison</a> (2005)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Never, Agamemnon, should words have greater sway for men than do their deeds. When a man does good, his words ought to be good; when he does evil then his words should be unsound. No one should speak well of injustice. About this last thing, there are those clever fellows who have performed it to perfection but they will all, in the end, be destroyed.  None of them have escaped so far.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://bacchicstage.wordpress.com/euripides/hekabe-aka-hecuba/#:~:text=Never%2C%20Agamemnon%2C%20should,escaped%20so%20far.">Theodoridis</a> (2007)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Agamemnon, never in the affairs of men<br>
Should the tongue have more power than facts,<br>
Rather, when someone acts well, he should speak well,<br>
And if the opposite, his words should be rotten.<br>
Glib rhetoric may win us over for a while,<br>
but in the end the smooth talkers die foully.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.didaskalia.net/issues/8/32/HecubaKardanStreet.pdf#page=36">Karden/Street</a> (2011)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Roosevelt, Franklin Delano -- Speech (1941-03-29), Jackson Day Radio Broadcast, U.S.S. Potomac</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The enemies of democracy are now trying, by every means, to destroy our unity. The chief weapon they now use against us is propaganda, propaganda that appeals to selfishness, that comes in ever increasing quantities, with ever increasing violence, from across the seas. And it is disseminated within our own borders by agents or innocent [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The enemies of democracy are now trying, by every means, to destroy our unity. The chief weapon they now use against us is propaganda, propaganda that appeals to selfishness, that comes in ever increasing quantities, with ever increasing violence, from across the seas. And it is disseminated within our own borders by agents or innocent dupes of foreign powers.</p>
<br><b>Franklin Delano Roosevelt</b> (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)<br>Speech (1941-03-29), Jackson Day Radio Broadcast, U.S.S. <i>Potomac</i> 
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		<title>Roosevelt, Franklin Delano -- Speech (1941-01-06) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union), Washington, D. C.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every realist knows that the democratic way of life is at this moment being directly assailed in every part of the world &#8212; assailed either by arms, or by secret spreading of poisonous propaganda by those who seek to destroy unity and promote discord in nations that are still at peace.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every realist knows that the democratic way of life is at this moment being directly assailed in every part of the world &#8212; assailed either by arms, or by secret spreading of poisonous propaganda by those who seek to destroy unity and promote discord in nations that are still at peace.</p>
<br><b>Franklin Delano Roosevelt</b> (1882–1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933–1945)<br>Speech (1941-01-06) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union), Washington, D. C. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Political language &#8212; and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists &#8212; is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.</p>
<br><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>Essay (1946-04), &#8220;Politics and the English Language,&#8221; <i>Horizon</i> Magazine 
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		<title>Chamfort, Nicolas -- Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 &#8220;Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],&#8221; ch.  1, ¶  85 (1795) [tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 69]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poets, orators, even philosophes, say the same things about fame we were told as boys to encourage us to win prizes. What they tell children to make them prefer being praised by their nannies to eating jam tarts is the same idea constantly drummed into us to encourage us to sacrifice our real interests in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poets, orators, even <i>philosophes,</i> say the same things about fame we were told as boys to encourage us to win prizes. What they tell children to make them prefer being praised by their nannies to eating jam tarts is the same idea constantly drummed into us to encourage us to sacrifice our real interests in the hope of being praised by our contemporaries or by posterity.<br />
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<em>[Ce que les poètes, les orateurs, même quelques philosophes nous disent sur l’amour de la Gloire, on nous le disait au Collège, pour nous encourager à avoir les prix. Ce que l’on dit aux enfans pour les engager à préférer à une tartelette les louanges de leurs bonnes, c’est ce qu’on répète aux hommes pour leur faire préférer à un intérêt personnel les éloges de leurs contemporains ou de la postérité.]</em></p>
<br><b>Nicolas Chamfort</b> (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)<br><i>Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée]</i>, Part 1 &#8220;Maxims and Thoughts <i>[Maximes et Pensées],&#8221;</i> ch.  1, ¶  85 (1795) [tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 69] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chamfort/0K0aAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22poets%20orators%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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(<a href="https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Maximes_et_Pens%C3%A9es_(Chamfort)/%C3%89dition_Bever/1#:~:text=Ce%20que%20les%20po%C3%A8tes,ou%20de%20la%20post%C3%A9rit%C3%A9.">Source (French)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>The things which poets, orators, and even a few philosophers tell us about the love of Glory, are exactly the things we are told at College to encourage us to win prizes. And what they say to children to make them prefer the praise of their nurses to a tartlet, they repeat to grown men to make them prefer the eulogy of their fellows or of posterity to personal advantage.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014501913&view=2up&seq=42&q1=prizes">Mathers</a> (1926)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>All that the poets, the orators, and even certain philosophers tell us about the love of fame we were told at school to urge us to win prizes. All that is said to encourage children to prefer the praise of their mentors to a piece of pie is repeated to men to make them consider their personal profit less desirable than the plaudits of their contemporaries and of posterity.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/productsofperfec0000seba_s1c9/page/124/mode/2up?q=%22+All+that+the+poets%22">Merwin</a> (1969)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Things said by poets, orators, even some philosophers, about love of glory, were told to us at the Collège to encourage us to win prizes. What children are told to incline them to prefer a slice of tart to their nurses' approval, is the same as what men are repeatedly told to make them put the commendation of their contemporaries, or that of posterity, before their personal interest.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Chamfort_Maxims/J9vwAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22things%20said%20by%20poets%22">Pearson</a> (1973)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>What poets, orators, even several philosophers have said about the love of fame, was told to us at school to encourage us to win prizes.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/chamfortbiograph00arna/page/71/mode/2up?q=%22prizes">Dusinberre</a> (1992)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>What poets, orators, and even philosophers say to us about love of glory is the same as what people said to us in the colleges to encourage us to compete for prizes. What people tell children to make them prefer the praise of their nurses to something silly is the same thing that people repeat to men to make them prefer the praise of their contemporaries or of posterity to their own self-interest.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://frenchphilosophes.weebly.com/chamfort.html#:~:text=What%20poets%2C%20orators,own%20self%2Dinterest.">Siniscalchi</a> (1994)]</blockquote><br>						</span>
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		<title>Pratchett, Terry -- Discworld No. 29, Night Watch (2002)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When he was a boy, he&#8217;d read books about great military campaigns, and visited museums and had looked with patriotic pride at the paintings of famous cavalry charges, last stands, and glorious victories. It had come as rather a shock, when he later began to participate in some of these, to find that the painters [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When he was a boy, he&#8217;d read books about great military campaigns, and visited museums and had looked with patriotic pride at the paintings of famous cavalry charges, last stands, and glorious victories. It had come as rather a shock, when he later began to participate in some of these, to find that the painters had unaccountably left out the intestines. Perhaps they just weren&#8217;t very good at them.</p>
<br><b>Terry Pratchett</b> (1948-2015) English author<br>Discworld No. 29, <i>Night Watch</i> (2002) 
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		<title>Chesterton, Gilbert Keith -- &#8220;Our Note Book,&#8221; The Illustrated London News (1905-12-02)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real education precisely consists in the fact that we see beyond the symbols and the mere machinery of the age in which we find ourselves: education precisely consists in the realization of a permanent simplicity that abides behind all civilizations, the life that is more than meat, the body that is more than raiment. The [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Real education precisely consists in the fact that we see beyond the symbols and the mere machinery of the age in which we find ourselves: education precisely consists in the realization of a permanent simplicity that abides behind all civilizations, the life that is more than meat, the body that is more than raiment. The only object of education is to make us ignore mere schemes of education. Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.</p>
<br><b>Gilbert Keith Chesterton</b> (1874-1936) English journalist and writer<br>&#8220;Our Note Book,&#8221; <i>The Illustrated London News</i> (1905-12-02) 
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		<title>Della Casa, Giovanni -- Galateo: Or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners [Il Galateo overo de’ costumi], ch. 29 (1558) [tr. Graves (1774)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By a pompous parade of words, some learned men have so managed it, that an unjust cause has often gained the victory, and reason submitted to sophistry and chicane. [Gli uomini letterati, per pompa di parlare, fanno ben spesso che il torto vince, e che la ragione perde.] (Source (Italian)). Alternate translations: But, we see [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By a pompous parade of words, some learned men have so managed it, that an unjust cause has often gained the victory, and reason submitted to sophistry and chicane.</p>
<p><em>[Gli uomini letterati, per pompa di parlare, fanno ben spesso che il torto vince, e che la ragione perde.]</em></p>
<br><b>Giovanni della Casa</b> (1503-1556) Florentine poet, author, diplomat, bishop<br><i>Galateo: Or, A Treatise on Politeness and Delicacy of Manners [Il Galateo overo de’ costumi]</i>, ch. 29 (1558) [tr. Graves (1774)] 
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(<a href="https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Galateo_overo_de%27_costumi/XXIX#:~:text=E%20troviamo%20che%20gli%20uomini%20letterati%20per%20pompa%20di%20loro%20parlare%20fanno%20bene%20spesso%20che%20il%20torto%20vince%20e%20che%20la%20ragion%20perde">Source (Italian)</a>). Alternate translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>But, we see that Learned men have suche art and cunning to persuade, and such filed wordes to serve their turne: that wrong doth carry the cause away, and Reason cannot prevaile. <br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/arenaissancecou00spingoog/page/n142/mode/2up?q=%22suche+art+and+cunning%22">Peterson</a> (1576)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Men of letters, with their parade of high-flown language, very often make the wrong to prevail and the right to succumb.<br>
[ed. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dictionary_of_Quotations_Italian/t-I5AAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=galateo+%22parade+of+high-flown+language%22&pg=PA68&printsec=frontcover">Harbottle</a> (1897)]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>We find that learned men, through their grandiose talk, very often manage to have the wrong side win and reason lose.<br>
[tr. Ei<a href="https://archive.org/details/galateo0000dell/page/58/mode/2up?q=%22grandiose+talk%22">senbichler/Bartlett</a> (1986)] </blockquote><br>
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		<title>Parsons, Lucy -- &#8220;Property Rights vs. Human Rights,&#8221; The Liberator (22 Nov 1905)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who, pray, are benefiting by all this waste and confusion? The dew, a mere small percentage of the population of the world. All the remainder submit, because they think &#8220;it always has been so and it must always be so.&#8221; The work of those who have a conception of a true society of the future, must devote all their efforts towards disabusing the people&#8217;s minds of the ancient false hoods. It <i>can</i> be done. Many other hoary lies have passed away, so will this one, too.</p>
<br><b>Lucy Parsons</b> (1851-1942) American labor organizer, anarchist, orator [a.k.a. Lucy Gonzalez]<br>&#8220;Property Rights vs. Human Rights,&#8221; <i>The Liberator</i> (22 Nov 1905) 
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		<title>Serling, Rod -- Letter to viewer who complained about the TV movie &#8220;Carol for Another Christmas&#8221; (1964)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I note in a letter forwarded to me by the Famous Writers School that I have “aided the Communist conspiracy.” If this is indeed true, and I mean this with sincerity and respect, I should turn myself in to any local F.B.I. office. It was not my intention to aid and conspire, when I wrote [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I note in a letter forwarded to me by the Famous Writers School that I have “aided the Communist conspiracy.” If this is indeed true, and I mean this with sincerity and respect, I should turn myself in to any local F.B.I. office. It was not my intention to aid and conspire, when I wrote the TV script, “Carol for Another Christmas,” nor was I remotely interested in propagandizing for the United Nations or for any organization. I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must involve themselves in the anguish of other human beings. This, I submit to you, is not a political thesis at all. It is simply an expression of what I would hope might be ultimately a simple humanity for humanity’s sake.</p>
<br><b>Rod Serling</b> (1924-1975) American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, narrator <br>Letter to viewer who complained about the TV movie &#8220;Carol for Another Christmas&#8221; (1964) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/asiknewhimmydadr0000serl/page/160/mode/2up?q=%22note+in+a+letter%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Quoted in Anne Serling, <i>As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling</i> (2013).
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		<title>Stanley, Jason -- How Propaganda Works, ch. 1 (2015)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nature of liberal democracy prevents propagandistic statements from being banned, since among the liberties it permits is the freedom of speech. But since humans have characteristic rational weaknesses and are susceptible to flattery and manipulation, allowing propaganda has a high likelihood of leading to tyranny, and hence to the end of liberal democracy.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The nature of liberal democracy prevents propagandistic statements from being banned, since among the liberties it permits is the freedom of speech. But since humans have characteristic rational weaknesses and are susceptible to flattery and manipulation, allowing propaganda has a high likelihood of leading to tyranny, and hence to the end of liberal democracy.</p>
<br><b>Jason Stanley</b> (b. 1969) American philosopher, epistemologist, academic<br><i>How Propaganda Works</i>, ch. 1 (2015) 
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		<title>Orwell, George -- Homage to Catalonia, Appendix 1 (1938)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.</p>
<br><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br><i>Homage to Catalonia</i>, Appendix 1 (1938) 
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		<title>Snyder, Timothy -- Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, &#8220;Conclusion&#8221; (2015)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet if states were destroyed, local institutions corrupted, and economic incentives directed towards murder, few of us would behave well. There is little reason to think that we are ethically superior to the Europeans of the 1930s and 1940s, or for that matter less vulnerable to the kind of ideas that Hitler so successfully promulgated [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yet if states were destroyed, local institutions corrupted, and economic incentives directed towards murder, few of us would behave well. There is little reason to think that we are ethically superior to the Europeans of the 1930s and 1940s, or for that matter less vulnerable to the kind of ideas that Hitler so successfully promulgated and realized. </p>
<br><b>Timothy Snyder</b> (b. 1969) American historian, author<br><i>Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning</i>, &#8220;Conclusion&#8221; (2015) 
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		<title>Lippmann, Walter -- A Preface to Politics, ch. 4 (1913)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.</p>
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<br><b>Walter Lippmann</b> (1889-1974) American journalist and author<br><i>A Preface to Politics</i>, ch. 4 (1913) 
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		<title>Butler, William -- Charles George Gordon, ch. 1 (1891)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is the victor who writes the history and counts the dead, and to the vanquished in such a struggle there only remains the dull memory of an unnumbered and unwritten sorrow.</p>
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<br><b>William Butler</b> (1838-1910) Irish British Army officer, writer, adventurer<br><i>Charles George Gordon</i>, ch. 1 (1891) 
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		<title>Orwell, George -- Essay (1945-05), &#8220;Notes on Nationalism,&#8221; Polemic Magazine (1945-10)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The primary aim of propaganda is, of course, to influence contemporary opinion, but those who rewrite history do probably believe with part of their minds that they are actually thrusting facts into the past. When one considers the elaborate forgeries that have been committed in order to show that Trotsky did not play a valuable [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The primary aim of propaganda is, of course, to influence contemporary opinion, but those who rewrite history do probably believe with part of their minds that they are actually thrusting facts into the past. When one considers the elaborate forgeries that have been committed in order to show that Trotsky did not play a valuable part in the Russian civil war, it is difficult to feel that the people responsible are merely lying. More probably they feel that their own version <em>was</em> what happened in the sight of God, and that one is justified in rearranging the records accordingly. </p>
<br><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>Essay (1945-05), &#8220;Notes on Nationalism,&#8221; <i>Polemic</i> Magazine (1945-10) 
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		<description><![CDATA[Truth is the first casualty in war. Variant: &#8220;Truth is the first casualty of war.&#8221; Not found, as such, in Aeschylus&#8217; works. The closest (Fragm. Incert, xi.) is his phrase &#8220;God is not averse to deceit in a just cause.&#8221; Attribution to of the subject phrase to Aeschylus dates only back to 1965. The first [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Truth is the first casualty in war.</p>
<br><b>Aeschylus</b> (525-456 BC) Greek dramatist (Æschylus)<br>(Misattributed) 
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Variant: "Truth is the first casualty of war."<br><br>

Not found, as such, in Aeschylus' works. The closest (Fragm. Incert, xi.) is his phrase "God is not averse to deceit in a just cause." Attribution to of the subject phrase to Aeschylus dates only back to 1965. The first recorded use of the phrase as such is from 1915, but even there it is offered as a quotation from an unnamed source.<br><br> 

More discussion of the history of this phrase can be found <a href="https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/the_first_casualty_of_war_is_truth/">here</a> and <a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/04/11/casualty/">here</a>.						</span>
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		<title>Orwell, George -- Essay (1945-05), &#8220;Notes on Nationalism,&#8221; Polemic Magazine (1945-10)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties.</p>
<br><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>Essay (1945-05), &#8220;Notes on Nationalism,&#8221; <i>Polemic</i> Magazine (1945-10) 
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		<title>Arendt, Hannah -- Essay (1964-08), &#8220;Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship,&#8221; The Listener Magazine</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moreover, if we look at the techniques of totalitarian government, it is obvious that the argument of “the lesser evil” &#8212; far from being raised only from the outside by those who do not belong to the ruling elite &#8212; is one of the mechanisms built into the machinery of terror and criminality. Acceptance of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Moreover, if we look at the techniques of totalitarian government, it is obvious that the argument of “the lesser evil” &#8212; far from being raised only from the outside by those who do not belong to the ruling elite &#8212; is one of the mechanisms built into the machinery of terror and criminality. Acceptance of lesser evils is consciously used in conditioning the government officials as well</p>
<br><b>Hannah Arendt</b> (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist<br>Essay (1964-08), &#8220;Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship,&#8221; <i>The Listener</i> Magazine 
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<a href="https://archive.org/details/responsibilityju0000aren/page/36/mode/2up?q=%22Moreover%2C+if+we+look+at+the+techniques+%22">Collected</a> in <i>Responsibility and Judgment</i>, Part 1 "Responsibility" (2003).
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		<title>Arendt, Hannah -- Interview (1973-10) with Roger Errera, Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie &#8212; a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days &#8212; but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.</p>
<br><b>Hannah Arendt</b> (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist<br>Interview (1973-10) with Roger Errera, Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1978/10/26/hannah-arendt-from-an-interview/#gform_submit_button_2127570121:~:text=If%20everybody%20always%20lies%20to%20you%2C,can%20then%20do%20what%20you%20please." target="_blank">Source</a>)
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<a href="https://www.hannaharendt.net/index.php/han/article/viewFile/190/313">Parts of this interview</a> were turned into an episode of the French TV series "Un certain regard," directed by Jean-Claude Lubtchansky, first broadcast 1974-07-06.<br><br>

This section was published in <i>The New York Review of Books</i> (1978-10-26).						</span>
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		<title>Hitler, Adolph -- Mein Kampf [My Struggle], Vol. 1, ch. 10 (1925)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would never come into their [the masses&#8217;] heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It would never come into their [the masses&#8217;] heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying.</p>
<br><b>Adolph Hitler</b> (1889-1945) German leader<br><i>Mein Kampf [My Struggle]</i>, Vol. 1, ch. 10 (1925) 
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		<title>Sinclair, Upton -- Mammonart, ch. 2 &#8220;Who Owns the Artists?&#8221; (1925)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda. As commentary on the above, we add, that when artists or art critics make the assertion that art excludes propaganda, what they are saying is that their kind of propaganda is art, and other kinds of propaganda are not [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.</em></p>
<p>As commentary on the above, we add, that when artists or art critics make the assertion that art excludes propaganda, what they are saying is that their kind of propaganda is art, and other kinds of propaganda are not art. Orthodoxy is my doxy, and heterodoxy is the other fellow&#8217;s doxy.</p>
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<br><b>Upton Sinclair</b> (1878-1968) American writer, journalist, activist, politician<br><i>Mammonart</i>, ch. 2 &#8220;Who Owns the Artists?&#8221; (1925) 
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		<title>Kempton, Murray -- Part of Our Time: Some Ruins &#038; Monuments of the Thirties, ch. 3 (1955)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.</p>
<br><b>Murray Kempton</b> (1917-1997) American journalist.<br><i>Part of Our Time: Some Ruins &#038; Monuments of the Thirties</i>, ch. 3 (1955) 
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		<title>Philo of Alexandria -- On Dreams, That They Are God-Sent [Quod a Deo Mittantur Somnia or De Somniis], Book 2, ch. 12 [2.78-79] [tr. @sentantiq]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Indeed, just as frightened horses raise their necks up high, in the same way all those devotees of empty glory raise themselves above everything else, above cities, laws, ancestral custom, and the affairs of individual citizens. As they move from demagoguery to dictatorship, they subdue some of their neighbors as they try to make themselves [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Indeed, just as frightened horses raise their necks up high, in the same way all those devotees of empty glory raise themselves above everything else, above cities, laws, ancestral custom, and the affairs of individual citizens. As they move from demagoguery to dictatorship, they subdue some of their neighbors as they try to make themselves superior and upright &#8212; and then they plan to enslave however so many minds remain naturally free and unenslaved. </p>
<p>[τῷ γὰρ ὄντι καθάπερ οἱ γαῦροι τῶν ἵππων τὸν αὐχένα μετέωρον ἐξάραντες, ὅσοι θιασῶται τῆς κενῆς δόξης εἰσίν, ἐπάνω πάντων ἑαυτοὺς ἱδρύουσι, πόλεων, νόμων, ἐθῶν πατρίων, τῶν παρ᾿ ἑκάστοις πραγμάτων· εἶτα ἀπὸ δημαγωγίας ἐπὶ δημαρχίαν βαδίζοντες καὶ τὰ μὲν τῶν πλησίον καταβάλλοντες, τὰ δὲ οἰκεῖα διανιστάντες καὶ παγίως ὀρθοῦντες, ὅσα ἐλεύθερα καὶ ἀδούλωτα φύσει φρονήματα]</p>
<br><b>Philo of Alexandria</b> (AD c. 20-50) Hellenistic Jewish philosopher [Philo Judaeus]<br><i>On Dreams, That They Are God-Sent [Quod a Deo Mittantur Somnia</i> or <i>De Somniis]</i>, Book 2, ch. 12 [2.78-79] [tr. @sentantiq] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2020/06/01/dictatorships-tyrants-and-kings-2/" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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Alt. trans.: "In real truth, as spirited horses lift their necks high, so all who are companions of vain opinion place themselves above all things, above all cities, and laws, and national customs, and above all the circumstances which affect each individual of them. Then proceeding onwards from being demagogues to being leaders of the people, and overthrowing the things which belong to their neighbours, and setting up and establishing on a solid footing what belongs to themselves, that is to say, all such dispositions as are free and by nature impatient of slavery, they attempt to reduce these also under their power." [<a href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/yonge/book21.html">Yonge</a> (1855)]						</span>
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		<title>Arendt, Hannah -- The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 &#8220;The Totalitarian Movement,&#8221; sec. 2 (1951)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.</p>
<br><b>Hannah Arendt</b> (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist<br><i>The Origins of Totalitarianism</i>, Part 3, ch. 11 &#8220;The Totalitarian Movement,&#8221; sec. 2 (1951) 
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		<title>Arendt, Hannah -- The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 &#8220;A Classless Society,&#8221; sec.  1 (1951)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the propaganda of totalitarian movements which precede and accompany totalitarian regimes is invariably as frank as it is mendacious, and would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past crimes and carefully outlining their future ones. The Nazis were &#8220;convinced that evil-doing in our time has a morbid force of attraction,&#8221; [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the propaganda of totalitarian movements which precede and accompany totalitarian regimes is invariably as frank as it is mendacious, and would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past crimes and carefully outlining their future ones. The Nazis were &#8220;convinced that evil-doing in our time has a morbid force of attraction,&#8221; Bolshevik assurances inside and outside Russia that they do not recognize ordinary moral standards have become a mainstay of Communist propaganda, and experience has proven time and again that the propaganda value of evil deeds and general contempt for moral standards is independent of mere self-interest, supposedly the most powerful psychological factor in politics.</p>
<br><b>Hannah Arendt</b> (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist<br><i>The Origins of Totalitarianism</i>, Part 3, ch. 10 &#8220;A Classless Society,&#8221; sec.  1 (1951) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/originsoftotalit0000unse/page/306/mode/2up" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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		<title>Inge, William Ralph -- &#8220;The Future of the English Race,&#8221; Galton Lecture (1919), Outspoken Essays: First Series (1920)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Race and nationality are catchwords for which rulers find that their subjects are willing to fight, as they fought for what they called religion four hundred years ago.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Race and nationality are catchwords for which rulers find that their subjects are willing to fight, as they fought for what they called religion four hundred years ago.</p>
<p><a href="https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Inge-Race-and-nationality-catchwords-rulers-subjects-fight-religion-four-hundred-years-ago-wist_info-quote.png"><img alt="" decoding="async" src="https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Inge-Race-and-nationality-catchwords-rulers-subjects-fight-religion-four-hundred-years-ago-wist_info-quote.png" alt="" width="800" height="330" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-41144" srcset="https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Inge-Race-and-nationality-catchwords-rulers-subjects-fight-religion-four-hundred-years-ago-wist_info-quote.png 800w, https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Inge-Race-and-nationality-catchwords-rulers-subjects-fight-religion-four-hundred-years-ago-wist_info-quote-300x124.png 300w, https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Inge-Race-and-nationality-catchwords-rulers-subjects-fight-religion-four-hundred-years-ago-wist_info-quote-768x317.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" /></a></p>
<br><b>William Ralph Inge</b> (1860-1954) English prelate [Dean Inge]<br>&#8220;The Future of the English Race,&#8221; Galton Lecture (1919), <i>Outspoken Essays: First Series</i> (1920) 
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		<title>Brown, Rita Mae -- Starting from Scratch, Part 3 &#8220;The Work,&#8221; &#8220;The Passive Voice, or The Secret Agent&#8221; (1989)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2018 01:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.</p>
<br><b>Rita Mae Brown</b> (b. 1944) American author, playwright<br><i>Starting from Scratch</i>, Part 3 &#8220;The Work,&#8221; &#8220;The Passive Voice, or The Secret Agent&#8221; (1989) 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=P4UknqSJEO8C&lpg=PP1&dq=rita%20may%20brown%20%22starting%20from%20scratch%22&pg=PT58#v=onepage&q=%22hidden%20power%22&f=false" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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		<title>Brown, Rita Mae -- Starting from Scratch (1989)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2018 18:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.</p>
<br><b>Rita Mae Brown</b> (b. 1944) American author, playwright<br><i>Starting from Scratch</i> (1989) 
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		<title>Kubrick, Stanley -- Dr. Strangelove (1964) [with T. Southern, Peter George, based on Red Alert by Peter George]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[RIPPER: I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>RIPPER: I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.</p>
<br><b>Stanley Kubrick</b> (1928-1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer<br><i>Dr. Strangelove</i> (1964) [with T. Southern, Peter George, based on <i>Red Alert</i> by Peter George] 
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		<title>Heinlein, Robert A. -- Essay (1952-10), &#8220;Concerning Stories Never Written,&#8221; Revolt in 2100, Postscript (1953)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. This [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics. This is equally true whether the faith is Communism or Holy-Rollerism; indeed it is the bounden duty of the faithful to do so. The custodians of the True Faith cannot logically admit tolerance of heresy to be a virtue.</p>
<br><b>Robert A. Heinlein</b> (1907-1988) American writer<br>Essay (1952-10), &#8220;Concerning Stories Never Written,&#8221; <i>Revolt in 2100</i>, Postscript (1953) 
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		<title>Orwell, George -- Essay (1946-04), &#8220;Politics and the English Language,&#8221; Horizon Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? And he will probably ask himself two more: Could I [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="tab">A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: What am I trying to say? What words will express it? What image or idiom will make it clearer? Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? And he will probably ask himself two more: Could I put it more shortly? Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?<br />
<span class="tab">But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you &#8212; even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent &#8212; and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.<br />
<span class="tab">It is at this point that the special connection between politics and the debasement of language becomes clear.</p>
<br><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>Essay (1946-04), &#8220;Politics and the English Language,&#8221; <i>Horizon</i> Magazine 
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		<title>Bonhoeffer, Dietrich -- &#8220;On Stupidity&#8221; (1942)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings.</p>
<br><b>Dietrich Bonhoeffer</b> (1906-1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, martyr<br>&#8220;On Stupidity&#8221; (1942) 
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		<title>Gandhi, Mohandas -- In Young India (22 Sep 1920)</title>
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<br><b>Mohandas Gandhi</b> (1869-1948) Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, political ethicist [Mahatma Gandhi]<br>In <i>Young India</i> (22 Sep 1920) 
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		<title>Orwell, George -- (Attributed)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.</p>
<br><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>(Attributed) 
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		<title>Willson, Meredith -- &#8220;(Ya Got) Trouble,&#8221; The Music Man (1957)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ya got trouble, folks! Right here in River City. Trouble with a capital &#8220;T&#8221; And that rhymes with &#8220;P&#8221; And that stands for pool!]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ya got trouble, folks!<br />
Right here in River City.<br />
Trouble with a capital &#8220;T&#8221;<br />
And that rhymes with &#8220;P&#8221;<br />
And that stands for pool!</p>
<br><b>Meredith Willson</b> (1902-1984) American composer, songwriter, flutist, conductor, playwright<br>&#8220;(Ya Got) Trouble,&#8221; <i>The Music Man</i> (1957) 
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		<title>Lewis, Sinclair -- It Can&#8217;t Happen Here, ch. 36 (1935)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[He was afraid that the world struggle today was not of Communism against Fascism, but of tolerance against the bigotry that was preached equally by Communism and Fascism. But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word &#8220;Fascism&#8221; and preached [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He was afraid that the world struggle today was not of Communism against Fascism, but of tolerance against the bigotry that was preached equally by Communism and Fascism. But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word &#8220;Fascism&#8221; and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty. For they were thieves not only of wages but of honor. To their purpose they could quote not only Scripture but Jefferson.</p>
<br><b>Sinclair Lewis</b> (1885-1951) American novelist, playwright<br><i>It Can&#8217;t Happen Here</i>, ch. 36 (1935) 
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		<title>Eisenhower, Dwight David -- Letter to George C. Marshall (15 Apr 1945)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[But the most interesting &#8212; although horrible &#8212; sight that I encountered during the trip was a visit to a German internment camp near Gotha. The things I saw beggar description. While I was touring the camp I encountered three men who had been inmates and by one ruse or another had made their escape. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But the most interesting &#8212; although horrible &#8212; sight that I encountered during the trip was a visit to a German internment camp near Gotha. The things I saw beggar description. While I was touring the camp I encountered three men who had been inmates and by one ruse or another had made their escape. I interviewed them through an interpreter. The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to &#8220;propaganda&#8221;.</p>
<br><b>Dwight David Eisenhower</b> (1890-1969) American general, US President (1953-61)<br>Letter to George C. Marshall (15 Apr 1945) 
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Referring to the Ohrdruf concentration camp, part of the Buchenwald network of camps. It was the first camp liberated by US troops.						</span>
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		<title>HIcks, Bill -- Performance, Pittsburgh (20 Jun 1991)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s what I hate about the war on drugs. All day long we see those commercials: &#8220;Here&#8217;s your brain, here&#8217;s your brain on drugs&#8221;, &#8220;Just Say No&#8221;, &#8220;Why do you think they call it dope?&#8221; … And then the next commercial is &#8220;This Bud&#8217;s for yooouuuu.&#8221; C&#8217;mon, everybody, let&#8217;s be hypocritical bastards. It&#8217;s okay to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s what I hate about the war on drugs. All day long we see those commercials: &#8220;Here&#8217;s your brain, here&#8217;s your brain on drugs&#8221;, &#8220;Just Say No&#8221;, &#8220;Why do you think they call it dope?&#8221; … And then the next commercial is &#8220;This Bud&#8217;s for yooouuuu.&#8221; C&#8217;mon, everybody, let&#8217;s be hypocritical bastards. It&#8217;s okay to <i>drink</i> your drug. We meant those <i>other</i> drugs. Those <i>untaxed</i> drugs. <i>Those</i> are the ones that are bad for you.</p>
<br><b>Bill Hicks</b> (1961-1994) American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, musician [William Melvin "Bill" Hicks]<br>Performance, Pittsburgh (20 Jun 1991) 
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Recorded in <i>Flying Saucer Tour, Vol. 1</i> (2002) 
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		<title>Burke, Edmund -- (Attributed)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. Cited in J.F. Boyes, Lacon in Council (1865). Also attributed to Horace Mann.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.</p>
<br><b>Edmund Burke</b> (1729-1797) Anglo-Irish statesman, orator, philosopher<br>(Attributed) 
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Cited in J.F. Boyes, <em>Lacon in Council</em> (1865). Also attributed to Horace Mann.
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		<title>Roosevelt, Eleanor -- Essay (1961-04), &#8220;What Has Happened to the American Dream?&#8221; Atlantic Monthly</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man cannot live without hope. If it is not engendered by his own convictions and desires, it can easily be fired from without, and by the most meretricious and empty of promises. (Source (Alternate)). On the effectiveness of Soviet propaganda in the Third World.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Man cannot live without hope. If it is not engendered by his own convictions and desires, it can easily be fired from without, and by the most meretricious and empty of promises.</p>
<br><b>Eleanor Roosevelt</b> (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist<br>Essay (1961-04), &#8220;What Has Happened to the American Dream?&#8221; <i>Atlantic Monthly</i> 
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		<title>Camus, Albert -- &#8220;Entre oui et non,&#8221; in L&#8217;Envers et l&#8217;endroit (1937)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t let them tell us stories. Don&#8217;t let them say of the man sentenced to death &#8220;He is going to pay his debt to society,&#8221; but: &#8220;They are going to cut off his head.&#8221; It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. Translated as &#8220;Between Yes and No&#8221;, in World Review (Mar [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t let them tell us stories. Don&#8217;t let them say of the man sentenced to death &#8220;He is going to pay his debt to society,&#8221; but: &#8220;They are going to cut off his head.&#8221; It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. </p>
<br><b>Albert Camus</b> (1913-1960) Algerian-French novelist, essayist, playwright<br><i>&#8220;Entre oui et non,&#8221;</i> in <i>L&#8217;Envers et l&#8217;endroit</i> (1937) 
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Translated as "Between Yes and No", in <em>World Review</em> (Mar 1950).						</span>
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		<title>Gide, André -- Journal (10 Feb 1943) [tr. O&#8217;Brien (1951)]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.</p>
<br><b>André Gide</b> (1869-1951) French author, Nobel laureate<br>Journal (10 Feb 1943) [tr. O&#8217;Brien (1951)] 
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		<title>Lenin, Vladimir Ilich -- The State and Revolution, 1.1 (1917)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, &#8230; and to hallow their names to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, &#8230; and to hallow their <i>names</i> to a certain extent for the &#8220;consolation&#8221; of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its <i>substance</i>, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.</p>
<br><b>Vladimir Ilich Lenin</b> (1870-1924) Russian politician, revolutionary, political theorist [b. Vladimir Ilich Ulyamov]<br><i>The State and Revolution</i>, 1.1 (1917) 
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		<title>Acton, John Dalberg (Lord) -- Letter (1887-04-05) to Mandell Creighton</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The inflexible integrity of the moral code is, to me, the secret of the authority, the dignity, the utility of History. If we may debase the currency for the sake of genius, or success, or rank, or reputation, we may debase it for the sake of a man’s influence, of his religion, of his party, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The inflexible integrity of the moral code is, to me, the secret of the authority, the dignity, the utility of History. If we may debase the currency for the sake of genius, or success, or rank, or reputation, we may debase it for the sake of a man’s influence, of his religion, of his party, of the good cause which prospers by his credit and suffers by his disgrace. Then History ceases to be a science, an arbiter of controversy, a guide of the Wanderer, the upholder of that moral standard which the powers of earth and religion itself tend constantly to depress. It serves where it ought to reign; and it serves the worst cause better than the purest.</p>
<br><b>John Dalberg, Lord Acton</b> (1834-1902) British historian, politician, writer<br>Letter (1887-04-05) to Mandell Creighton 
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		<title>Niebuhr, Reinhold -- The Irony of American History (1962)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We find it almost as difficult as the communists to believe that anyone could think ill of us, since we are as persuaded as the communists that our society is so essentially virtuous that only malice could prompt criticism of any of our actions.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We find it almost as difficult as the communists to believe that anyone could think ill of us, since we are as persuaded as the communists that our society is so essentially virtuous that only malice could prompt criticism of any of our actions.</p>
<br><b>Reinhold Niebuhr</b> (1892-1971) American theologian and clergyman<br><i>The Irony of American History</i> (1962) 
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		<title>Hoffer, Eric -- Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 218 (1955)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears, and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears, and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. </p>
<br><b>Eric Hoffer</b> (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman<br><i>Passionate State of Mind</i>, Aphorism 218 (1955) 
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		<title>Hoffer, Eric -- True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, §  84  (1951)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Propaganda thus serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Propaganda thus serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.</p>
<br><b>Eric Hoffer</b> (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman<br><i>True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements</i>, Part 3, ch. 14, §  84  (1951) 
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		<title>Hoffer, Eric -- Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 260 (1955)</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.</p>
<br><b>Eric Hoffer</b> (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman<br><i>Passionate State of Mind</i>, Aphorism 260 (1955) 
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		<title>Connolly, Cyril -- &#8220;Ecce Gubernator,&#8221; The Unquiet Grave (1945)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[All State propaganda exalts comradeship, for it is this gregarious herd-sense and herd-smell which keeps people from thinking and so reconsiles them to the destruction of their private lives.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All State propaganda exalts comradeship, for it is this gregarious herd-sense and herd-smell which keeps people from thinking and so reconsiles them to the destruction of their private lives.</p>
<br><b>Cyril Connolly</b> (1903-1974) English intellectual, literary critic and writer.<br>&#8220;Ecce Gubernator,&#8221; <i>The Unquiet Grave</i> (1945) 
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		<title>Huxley, Aldous -- Essay (1936), &#8220;Words and Behaviour,&#8221; The Olive Tree, and Other Essays</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[All propaganda directed against an opposing group has but one aim: to substitute diabolical abstractions for concrete persons. The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. By robbing them of their personality, he puts them outside the pale of moral obligation. Mere symbols can [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All propaganda directed against an opposing group has but one aim: to substitute diabolical abstractions for concrete persons. The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. By robbing them of their personality, he puts them outside the pale of moral obligation. Mere symbols can have no rights &#8212; particularly when that of which they are symbolical is, by definition, evil.</p>
<br><b>Aldous Huxley</b> (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic<br>Essay (1936), &#8220;Words and Behaviour,&#8221; <i>The Olive Tree, and Other Essays</i> 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.459702/page/n103/mode/2up?q=%22all+propaganda%22" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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		<title>Hitler, Adolph -- Mein Kampf [My Struggle], Vol. 1, ch. 10 (1925)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All this was inspired by the principle &#8212;  which is quite true in itself &#8212; that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All this was inspired by the principle &#8212;  which is quite true in itself &#8212; that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. </p>
<br><b>Adolph Hitler</b> (1889-1945) German leader<br><i>Mein Kampf [My Struggle]</i>, Vol. 1, ch. 10 (1925) 
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		<title>Hoffer, Eric -- True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, §  83 (3.14.83) (1951)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates only into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way  into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor  can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It  penetrates only into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of  its recipients. The gifted propagandist brings to a boil ideas and  passions already simmering in the minds of his hearers. he echoes their  innermost feelings. Where opinion is not coerced, people can be made to believe only in what they already &#8220;know.&#8221;</p>
<br><b>Eric Hoffer</b> (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman<br><i>True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements</i>, Part 3, ch. 14, §  83 (3.14.83) (1951) 
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		<title>Acton, John Dalberg (Lord) -- &#8220;The Massacre of St Bartholomew,&#8221; North British Review (1869-10)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Such things will cease to be written when men perceive that truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history. Referencing Catholic denial and revisionism over the St Bartholomew&#8217;s Day Massacre. Usually elided to start with &#8220;Truth is &#8230;&#8221; Collected in The History of Freedom and Other Essays (1907)]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Such things will cease to be written when men perceive that truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.</p>
<br><b>John Dalberg, Lord Acton</b> (1834-1902) British historian, politician, writer<br>&#8220;The Massacre of St Bartholomew,&#8221; <i>North British Review</i> (1869-10) 
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Referencing Catholic denial and revisionism over the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Usually elided to start with "Truth is ..."<br><br>
<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&amp;staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=75&amp;layout=html#chapter_42900" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Collected</a> in <em>The History of Freedom and Other Essays</em> (1907)						</span>
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		<title>Murrow, Edward R. -- Speech, The Family of Man Award, The Protestant Council of New York (Oct 1964)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. The most sophisticated satellite has no conscience. The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings and in the end the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. The most sophisticated satellite has no conscience. The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem of what to say and how to say it.</p>
<br><b>Edward R. Murrow</b> (1908-1965) American journalist<br>Speech, The Family of Man Award, The Protestant Council of New York (Oct 1964) 
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		<title>Orwell, George -- Essay (1939), &#8220;Charles Dickens,&#8221; sec. 5, Inside the Whale (1940-03-11)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But every writer, especially every novelist, has a &#8220;message&#8221;, whether he admits it or not, and the minutest details of his work are influenced by it. All art is propaganda. Neither Dickens himself nor the majority of Victorian novelists would have thought of denying this. On the other hand, not all propaganda is art. See [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But every writer, especially every novelist, <em>has</em> a &#8220;message&#8221;, whether he admits it or not, and the minutest details of his work are influenced by it. All art is propaganda. Neither Dickens himself nor the majority of Victorian novelists would have thought of denying this. On the other hand, not all propaganda is art.</p>
<br><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>Essay (1939), &#8220;Charles Dickens,&#8221; sec. 5, <i>Inside the Whale</i> (1940-03-11) 
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See <a href="https://wist.info/sinclair-upton/42306/">Sinclair</a>.
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		<title>Heinlein, Robert A. -- Essay (1952-10), &#8220;Concerning Stories Never Written,&#8221; Revolt in 2100, Postscript (1953)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The capacity of the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.</p>
<br><b>Robert A. Heinlein</b> (1907-1988) American writer<br>Essay (1952-10), &#8220;Concerning Stories Never Written,&#8221; <i>Revolt in 2100</i>, Postscript (1953) 
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		<title>Russell, Bertrand -- Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch.  6 &#8220;Envy&#8221; (1930)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?</p>
<br><b>Bertrand Russell</b> (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher<br><i>Conquest of Happiness</i>, Part 1, ch.  6 &#8220;Envy&#8221; (1930) 
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		<title>Johnson, Samuel -- Essay (1758-11-11), The Idler, No.  30</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Among the calamities of war, may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.</p>
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<br><b>Samuel Johnson</b> (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic<br>Essay (1758-11-11), <i>The Idler</i>, No.  30 
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		<title>Doctor Who (1963) -- 14&#215;04 &#8220;The Face of Evil,&#8221; Part 1 (1977-01-01) [w. Chris Boucher]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE DOCTOR: Would you like a jelly baby? LEELA: It&#8217;s true then! They say the Evil One eats babies. THE DOCTOR: You mustn&#8217;t believe all they say. (Source (Video))]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THE DOCTOR:  Would you like a jelly baby?<br />
LEELA:  It&#8217;s true then!  They say the Evil One eats babies.<br />
THE DOCTOR:  You mustn&#8217;t believe all they say.</p>
<br><b>Doctor Who</b> (1963-1989) British science fiction television series, original run (BBC)<br>14&#215;04 &#8220;The Face of Evil,&#8221; Part 1 (1977-01-01) [w. Chris Boucher] 
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		<title>Pratchett, Terry -- Bromeliad No. 2, Diggers, ch.  3 (1990)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.</p>
<br><b>Terry Pratchett</b> (1948-2015) English author<br>Bromeliad No. 2, <i>Diggers</i>, ch.  3 (1990) 
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		<title>Wills, Garry -- The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power, ch. 18 (1981)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is always the danger with propaganda, that it becomes at last more credible to its disseminators than to its targets. Referring to US government efforts in the early 60s to paint Castro&#8217;s regime in Cuba as weak, eventually leading to the US government itself thinking the regime could be easily toppled.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is always the danger with propaganda, that it becomes at last more credible to its disseminators than to its targets. </p>
<br><b>Garry Wills</b> (b. 1934) American author, journalist, historian<br><i>The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power</i>, ch. 18 (1981) 
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Referring to US government efforts in the early 60s to paint Castro's regime in Cuba as weak, eventually leading to the US government itself thinking the regime could be easily toppled.
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		<title>Orwell, George -- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened &#8212; that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death? The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, <i>it never happened</i> &#8212; that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death? The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed &#8212; if all records told the same tale &#8212; then the lie passed into history and became truth. &#8220;Who controls the past,&#8221; ran the Party slogan, &#8220;controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.&#8221;</p>
<br><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br><i>Nineteen Eighty-Four</i> (1949) 
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Sometimes paraphrased, "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
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