Inspiration And Information

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. Edward Abbey ~ Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. Charles de Gaulle ~ Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. Bernard Shaw   ~ Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. George S. Patton ~ I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein   ~ War does not determine who is right - only who is left. Bertrand Russell  ~ War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other. Paul Valery  ~ In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons. Herodotus ~ Honor is not the exclusive prop...

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? Bertrand Russell All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.  Adolf Hitle   This is the secret of propaganda : To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated. Paul Watzlawick   Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. Noam Chomsky  Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.   Adolf Hitler    The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief. Jacques Ellu l The oblique paradox of ...