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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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"I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion."
"Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism."
"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."
"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."
"Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust."
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"In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act."
"The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor."
"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."
"Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society."
"Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale."
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