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"They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully."
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"I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose."

"That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda."

"In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One."

"One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts."

"Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way."

"Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television."

"What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war."

"They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully."
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"Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development."


"The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them pestilence and disease in order to heal them; a god who demoralizes mankind in order to improve it."


"We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life."


"Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property."


"If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity."


"While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect."


"Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost."


"Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!"


"Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice."


"The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals."
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