Willi Munzenberg famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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All news is lies and all propaganda is disguised as news.
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Photography works upon the human eye: what is seen is reflected in the brain without the need for complicated thought. In this way the bourgeoisie takes advantage of the mental indolence of the masses and does good business as well.
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Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.
-- Willi Munzenberg
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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
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The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
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Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
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The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.
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I only watch MSNBC for the news.
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all truly great art is propaganda ...
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No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.
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Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.
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We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
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