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«If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.»
Author: Joseph Goebbels
| About:
Politics,
Propaganda,
Psychology
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«History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.»
«A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.»
«A courage which looks easy and yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Courage,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
day after day, repeating, rewarded
«All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
ideology, machines, official, political ideology, political institutions, political machine, popular song, Popular songs, repeating, stereotype, stereotyped
«Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather
(Author)
| Keywords:
fiercely, Happened before, larks, notes, queer, repeating, The Larks
«Interpreter, n.: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
enables, interpreter, languages, repeating
«Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?»
«For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy»
«In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
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