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“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.”

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Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”

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Author:Ambrose Bierce

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

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Author:George Orwell

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”

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Author:Joseph Goebbels

“(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“History is the propaganda of the victors.”

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Book:Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel

Source: Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel

“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.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

“Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's moral and material health. The whole educational system, theater, film, literature, the press and broadcasting - all these will be used as a means to this end.”

“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.”