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"The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment."
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"Man lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well!"
"We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions, the only window to predict the future environmental and climate changes."
"We loved our homeland for thousands of years which cost us climate change and environmental degradation because we were too selfish to care about the nature, now it is time that we must love our world at least for a little time."
"Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence."
"Avoid living in new homes and working in new offices due to the high levels of chemical out-gassing that they exhibit during their first year."
"It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done."
"Whenever they are given the choice, some people choose a bath over a shower; they, too, would like to do their bit to waste water."
"The massive spread of corporate controlled humans across the face of the Earth would be regarded as a parasitic growth by nature."
"We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with electrified glass that emits electromagnetic intereference (EMI) does to the global environment."
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"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."
"Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game."
"Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society."
"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."
"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."
"The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief."
"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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