"State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day."

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Noam Chomsky

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“It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible.”
“When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.”
“All forms of landscape are autobiographical,”

Source : Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.158, Macmillan
“We have always believed that it's possible to make money without being evil.”

Source : "More glass from Google: ceo Larry Page gets transparent" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 05, 2012.
“My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.”
“My parents didn't raise me to be a professional player. They raised me to be a good person.”
“If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I had been wrong to believe myself unfit to raise my daughter. Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.”

Source : Vanessa Diffenbaugh (2011). “The Language of Flowers: A Novel”, p.308, Ballantine Books
“The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?”

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