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"Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact." Lyndon Johnson
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"It no longer matters whether one is exposed to true information. A person who is demoralized is unable to evaluate true information. The facts mean nothing to him. Even if I overwhelm him with information, with authentic evidence, with documents, with pictures. Even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him a concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it until he gets a kick in his fat ass. When the military boot crushes his balls, then he will understand, but not before. That is the tragic aspect of the situation of demoralization." Yuri Bezmenow
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"I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world." Ronald Reagan
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"The current moguls understand that true media power lies not in firing up our outrage, as Hearst did, but in befuddling it or tranquilizing it with new toys. The idea is to render us passive so that they can exercise their power to sell us a bunch of stuff we mostly don't need and mostly don't want." Richard Warren Schickel
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"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy." A. J. Liebling
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"No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident." Paul Craig Roberts
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"The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda." Edward Bernays
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"Eating meat is the most disgusting thing I can think of. It's like biting into your grandmother." Steven Patrick Morrissey
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"If bureaucracy continues to spread as it has, God will make the next deluge not with water, but with paper." Cyril Northcote Parkinson
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"Our profession is like that of actors. Without outside approval, we'll go under." Helmut Schmidt
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"An expert is someone who articulates the needs of those in power." Henry Kissinger