Latari Kawadu Madavi Quotes

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of brainwashing under freedom to which we are subjected and which all too often we are as willing or unwitting instruments

If you tell people something often enough, they will believe it.

The way brainwashing works is subtle and takes a long time.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

The primitive simplicity of their [the masses'] minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell big ones.

Propaganda tries to surround man by all possible routes in the realm of feelings as well as ideas, by playing on his will or on his needs, through his conscious and his unconscious, assailing him in both his private and his public life. It furnishes him with a complete system for explaining the world, and provides immediate incentives to action.

To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.

Government oppressed the body of the wage-slave, but Religion oppressed his mind, and poisoned the stream of progress at its source.

The listeners can see through our manipulation of the news too clearly. It is all laid on too thickly.

It would be easier to subjugate the entire universe through force of arms than to subjugate the minds of a single village... .

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

Of course, Behaviorism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

Propaganda is bad when it comes from the enemy. It is good when it comes from us.

If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters.

If you heard 40 times in a day that Newt Gingrich takes the wings off of butterflies, eventually you'd believe it.

The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.