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"There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media."
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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."
"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."
"Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media."
"Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation."
"To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness."
"I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information."
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"It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes."
"All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial."
"It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them."
"First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war."
"The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion."
"A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence"."
"War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced."
"The world generally speaking is now drifting on a more and more devastating course towards the absurd target of extermination - or rather, to be more exact - of the northern hemisphere's towns, fields, and the people who have developed our civilization."
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