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(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth


Jacques Ellul

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FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the nex...
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself.
PETER THE GREAT Our work is to present things that are as they are.
FREDERICK THE GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

{His teacher...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Rogues, would you live forever?
FREDERICK THE GREAT The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and th...
FREDERICK THE GREAT If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
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FREDERICK THE GREAT The heart itself is only a small vessel,
yet dragons are there, and lions,
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FREDERICK THE GREAT I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
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FREDERICK THE GREAT I love opposition that has convictions.
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
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ALEXANDER THE GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
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MARTIN JACQUES I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collecti...
JACQUES DELORS In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the publi...
JACQUES VERGES Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in ...
JACQUES LACAN The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is al...
MARTIN JACQUES The election of Shinzo Abe as the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party and now prim...
MARTIN JACQUES The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agend...
MARTIN JACQUES The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it mu...
MARTIN JACQUES Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can f...
BRIAN JACQUES What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of natur...
JACQUES COUSTEAU A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c...
JACQUES BARZUN We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what...
JACQUES COUSTEAU A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too lo...
JEPH JACQUES 'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scor...
JEPH JACQUES If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.
JEPH JACQUES Your whole life people tell you to do what you love. But if you gotta do something else to pay the b...
JEPH JACQUES You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.
JEPH JACQUES The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop...
JEPH JACQUES You can either hold yourself up to the unrealistic standards of others, or ignore them and concentra...
JEPH JACQUES Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer.
JEPH JACQUES There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster ...
JEPH JACQUES To know one's self, one must go all the way to horror.
JACQUES BOSSUET The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because ...
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