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"The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief."
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"You can't trust anyone you have to pay, and really, they can't trust you."
"Look, he said, "the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst.If you expect the worst, you're never disappointed, I pointed out.Yeah, but who lives like that?"
"It is not something you can tell by looking at a person, but trust is always being increased or decreased as you interact with a person."
"All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didnt have a reason for it.Yessir.But there aint but one reason.Yessir.You know what it is?No sir.It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be."
"Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on."
"People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things."
"You can rely on a stick, but not on a faithless friend."
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"Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society."
"All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis."
"Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game."
"The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor."
"In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act."
"The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation."
"It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale."
"Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity."
"For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived."
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