Thoughts To Ponder

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"Most of the 'pictures in our heads' we have gained from these media-even to the point where we often do not really believe what we see before us until we read about it in the paper or hear about it on the radio."-
C Wright Mills, The Power Elite

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"Fundamental deceptions damage the public's ability to maintain a rational view of the world. Once a basic untruth is rooted, it blurs a society's perception of reality and, consequently, the intelligence with which society reacts to events."- Ben H. Bagdikian, The New Media Monopoly

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"The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny" Michael Parenti

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"When faced with a choice between confronting an unpleasant reality and defending a set of comforting and socially accepted beliefs, most people choose the later course." W. Lance Bennett.

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"... man's capacity to forget is unlimited."- Jacques Ellul, Propaganda

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"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificually induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear." - General Douglas MacArthur, Speech, May 15, 1951

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"It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity." - Benjamin Tucker, Liberty, May 22, 1886

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"The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience." - Leo Tolstoy, Patriotism and Government

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"Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends." - Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine

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"It is sheer folly to expect justice from the unprincipled":
Proverb