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Jean Baudrillard

 (27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and specifically post-structuralism.

1980s

 * The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is already reproduced, the hyper-real.
 * Simulations (1983), New York: Semiotext, p. 146

 * The Marxist critique is only a critique of capital, a critique coming from the heart of the middle and classes, for which Marxism has served for a century as a latent ideology…. The Marxist seeks a good use of economy. Marxism is therefore only a limited petit bourgeois critique, one more step in the banalization of life toward the "good use" of the social!
 * Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 15 (1987) "When Bataille Attacked the Metaphysical Principle of Economy"

America (1986)

 * Trans. Chris Turner, 1988, New York: Verso, ISBN 0-860-91978-1

 * Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. Admittedly, there is the primal shock of the deserts and the dazzle of California, but when this is gone, the secondary brilliance of the journey begins, that of the excessive, pitiless distance, the infinity of anonymous faces and distances, or of certain miraculous geological formations, which ultimately testify to no human will, while keeping intact an image of upheaval. This form of travel admits of no exceptions: when it runs up against a known face, a familiar landscape, or some decipherable message, the spell is broken: the amnesic, ascetic, asymptotic charm of disappearance succumbs to affect and worldly semiology.
 * Vanishing Point (pp. 9-10)

 * Yet there is a certain solitude like no other - that of the man preparing his meal in public on a wall, or on the hood of his car, or along a fence, alone. You see that all the time here. It is the saddest sight in the world. Sadder than destitution, sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honour of sharing or disputing each other’s food. He who eats alone is dead (but not he who drinks alone. Why is this?).
 * New York (p. 15)

Cool Memories (1987, trans. 1990)

 * There are cultures that can only picture their origins and not their ends. Some are obsessed by both. Two other positions are possible: only picturing one's end - our own culture; picturing neither beginning nor end - the coming culture.
 * Chapter 1

 * Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
 * Chapter 3

 * A series of accidents creates a positively lighthearted state.
 * Chapter 4

 * There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
 * Chapter 5

 * One day, we shall stand up and our backsides will remain attached to our seats.

 * Dying is nothing. You have to know how to disappear. Dying comes down to a biological chance and that is of no consequence. Disappearing is of a far higher order of necessity. You must not leave it to biology to decide when you will disappear. To disappear is to pass into an enigmatic state which is neither life nor death. Some animals know how to do this, as do savages, who withdraw while still alive, from the sight of their own people.

 * Two bodies side by side, which are not asleep and know it: a strange kind of communication sets in between them, formed of respect for simulated sleep, and yet it needs to betray itself by some furtive sign — a breathing pattern which is not that of real sleep or movements which are not those of a dreaming body, Neither, however, wants to break the spell. It is a conspiracy in the dark, an emotional conspiracy filled with delicious tension.
 * There has been much discussion of the uninterpretable answer to the question: 'are you lying?' But ask someone next to you, very softly so as not to wake him: 'are you asleep?' If he replies that he is, then that makes him a liar. But he can reply by pretending to be asleep, which is not actually lying, but pretend-ing to lie. There is a big difference, since this is a lovers' game. The question itself is a lovers' game because it assumes the partner is not asleep while making every effort not to wake him. Besides, these are the same questions: do you love me? are you lying to me? are you asleep? And the reply — yes, I love you, yes, I'm lying, yes, I'm asleep — is equally paradoxical. But it is not untruthful. It simply comes from another world which is not the truth of the first. 'Yes, I'm asleep. Yes, I'm lying. Yes, I love you': all these answers reflect a marvellous somnambulism and, all in all, a very clear grasp of the relations we establish with reality when we are sleeping, lying or in love.
 * There has been much discussion of the uninterpretable answer to the question: 'are you lying?' But ask someone next to you, very softly so as not to wake him: 'are you asleep?' If he replies that he is, then that makes him a liar. But he can reply by pretending to be asleep, which is not actually lying, but pretend-ing to lie. There is a big difference, since this is a lovers' game. The question itself is a lovers' game because it assumes the partner is not asleep while making every effort not to wake him. Besides, these are the same questions: do you love me? are you lying to me? are you asleep? And the reply — yes, I love you, yes, I'm lying, yes, I'm asleep — is equally paradoxical. But it is not untruthful. It simply comes from another world which is not the truth of the first. 'Yes, I'm asleep. Yes, I'm lying. Yes, I love you': all these answers reflect a marvellous somnambulism and, all in all, a very clear grasp of the relations we establish with reality when we are sleeping, lying or in love.
 * There has been much discussion of the uninterpretable answer to the question: 'are you lying?' But ask someone next to you, very softly so as not to wake him: 'are you asleep?' If he replies that he is, then that makes him a liar. But he can reply by pretending to be asleep, which is not actually lying, but pretend-ing to lie. There is a big difference, since this is a lovers' game. The question itself is a lovers' game because it assumes the partner is not asleep while making every effort not to wake him. Besides, these are the same questions: do you love me? are you lying to me? are you asleep? And the reply — yes, I love you, yes, I'm lying, yes, I'm asleep — is equally paradoxical. But it is not untruthful. It simply comes from another world which is not the truth of the first. 'Yes, I'm asleep. Yes, I'm lying. Yes, I love you': all these answers reflect a marvellous somnambulism and, all in all, a very clear grasp of the relations we establish with reality when we are sleeping, lying or in love.

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 * Here begins my delirious self-criticism (all self-criticism is delirious, the worst form of the critical spirit being that which claims to be directed against itself). Nonetheless, I accuse myself of:
 * having surreptitiously mixed my phantasies in with reality and, more precisely, with the little amount of reality available at this most mediocre moment in history
 * having systematically opposed the most obvious and well-founded notions, in the hope that they would fall into the trap of this radicalism, which has not occurred
 * having dreamt of a different world which — whether women or concepts — would have been that of a sacred form of prostitution
 * having subtly drawn my energy from the energy of others according to a mental law of derivation
 * having cultivated a twilight zone of thought the more effectively to disguise the difference between night and day
 * never having been tempted to throw everything away, but merely obsessed by a sense of frustration and of having sublimated all cowardice in theoretical radicalism
 * having sinned by omission of references
 * AMEN
 * Of being profoundly carnal and melancholy
 * Of having withdrawn from things to the extent that any judgement I make is merely the word of a phantom
 * But where are the blinding insights of yesteryear? Around me I see nothing but groundless hysteria and unscrupulous vitality
 * AMEN
 * October 1980

The Ecstasy of Communication (1987)

 * L'autre par lui-même (Paris: Éditions Galilée, 1987); trans. Bernard and Caroline Schutze, New York:Semiotext(e)

 * The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing when one has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost its meaning. (p. 30)

 * Picturing others and everything which brings you closer to them is futile from the instant that ‘communication’ can make their presence immediate. (p. 42)

 * The close-up of a face is as obscene as a sexual organ seen from up close. It is a sexual organ. The promiscuity of the detail, the zoom-in, takes on a sexual value. (p. 43)

 * Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction. (p. 57)

 * Seduction is the world’s elementary dynamic… All this has changed significantly for us, at least in appearance. For what has happened to good and evil? Seduction hurls them against one another, and unites them beyond meaning, in a paroxysm [sudden outbreak of emotion] of intensity and charm. (p. 59)

 * Distinctive signs, full signs, never seduce us. (p. 59)

 * THERE IS NEVER ANYTHING TO PRO-DUCE. In spite of all its materialist efforts, production remains a utopia. We can wear ourselves out in materializing things, in rendering them visible, but we will never cancel the secret. (p. 65)

 * And so one can imagine that in amorous seduction the other is the locus of your secret — the other unknowingly holds that which you will never have the chance to know. (p. 65)

 * Take provocation, for instance, which is the opposite and the caricature of seduction. It says: "I know that you want to be seduced, and I will seduce you." Nothing could be worse than betraying this secret rule. Nothing could be less seductive than a provocative smile or inciteful behaviour, since both presuppose that one cannot be seduced naturally and that one needs to be blackmailed into it, or through a declaration of intent: "Let me seduce you" (p. 67)

 * The discourse of truth is quite simply impossible. It eludes itself. Everything eludes itself, everything scoffs at its own truth, seduction renders everything elusive. The fury to unveil the truth, to get at the naked truth, the one which haunts all discourses of interpretation, the obscene rage to uncover the secret, is proportionate to the impossibility of ever achieving this. …But this rage, this fury, only bears witness to the eternity of seduction and to the impossibility of mastering it. (p. 73)

Simulacra and Simulation (1981)

 * The simulacrum is never what hides the truth—it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true. — Ecclesiastes
 * "The Precession of Simulacra," p. 1

 * Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is a generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal.
 * "The Precession of Simulacra," p. 1

 * It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours: The desert of the real itself.
 * "The Precession of Simulacra," p. 1

 * For it is with the same imperialism that present-day simulators try to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their simulation models.
 * "The Precession of Simulacra," pp. 1–2

 * To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence. But it is more complicated than that because simulating is not pretending: "Whoever fakes an illness can simply stay in bed and make everyone believe he is ill. Whoever simulates an illness produces in himself some of the symptoms" (Littré). Therefore, pretending, or dissimulating, leaves the principle of reality intact: the difference is always clear, it is simply masked, whereas simulation threatens the difference between the "true" and the "false," the "real" and the "imaginary."
 * "The Precession of Simulacra," p. 3

 * "If he is this good at acting crazy, it's because he is." Nor is military psychology mistaken in this regard: in this sense, all crazy people simulate, and this lack of distinction is the worst kind of subversion. It is against this lack of distinction that classical reason armed itself in all its categories. But it is what today again outflanks them, submerging the principle of truth.
 * "The Precession of Simulacra," p. 4

 * The Jesuits founded their politics on the virtual disappearance of God and on the worldly and spectacular manipulation of consciences—the evanescence of God in the epiphany of power—the end of transcendence, which now only serves as an alibi for a strategy altogether free of influences and signs. Behind the baroqueness of images hides the éminence grise of politics.
 * "The Precession of Simulacra," p. 5

 * Such would be the successive phases of the image: it is the reflection of a profound reality; it masks and denatures a profound reality; it masks the absence of a profound reality; it has no relation to any reality whatsoever: it is its own pure simulacrum. In the first case, the image is a good appearance—representation is of the sacramental order. In the second, it is an evil appearance—it is of the order of maleficence. In the third, it plays at being an appearance—it is of the order of sorcery. In the fourth, it is no longer of the order of appearances, but of simulation.
 * "The Precession of Simulacra," p. 6

 * When the real is no longer what it was, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.
 * "The Precession of Simulacra," p. 6

 * Our entire linear and accumulative culture collapses if we cannot stockpile the past in plain view.
 * "The Precession of Simulacra," p. 10

 * Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the "real" country, all of "real" America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.
 * "The Precession of Simulacra," p. 12

 * This world wants to be childish in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the "real" world, and to conceal the fact that true childishness is everywhere—that it is that of the adults themselves who come here to act the child in order to foster illusions as to their real childishness.
 * "The Precession of Simulacra," p. 13

 * People no longer look at each other, but there are institutes for that. They no longer touch each other, but there is contactotherapy. They no longer walk, but they go jogging, etc. Everywhere one recycles lost faculties, or lost bodies, or lost sociality, or the lost taste for food.
 * "The Precession of Simulacra," p. 13

 * Watergate was thus nothing but a lure held out by the system to catch its adversaries—a simulation of scandal for regenerative ends.
 * "The Precession of Simulacra," p. 16

 * We are in a logic of simulation, which no longer has anything to do with a logic of facts and an order of reason. Simulation is characterized by a precession of the model, of all the models based on the merest fact—the models come first, their circulation, orbital like that of the bomb, constitutes the genuine magnetic field of the event. The facts no longer have a specific trajectory, they are born at the intersection of models, a single fact can be engendered by all the models at once.
 * "The Precession of Simulacra," pp. 16—17

 * The great event of this period, the great trauma, is this decline of strong referentials, these death pangs of the real and of the rational that open onto an age of simulation. Whereas so many generations, and particularly the last, lived in the march of history, in the euphoric or catastrophic expectation of a revolution—today one has the impression that history has retreated, leaving behind it an indifferent nebula, traversed by currents, but emptied of references. It is into this void that the phantasms of a past history recede, the panoply of events, ideologies, retro fashions—no longer so much because people believe in them or still place some hope in them, but simply to resurrect the period when at least there was history, at least there was violence (albeit fascist), when at least life and death were at stake.
 * "History: A Retro Scenario," pp. 43—44

 * Photography and cinema contributed in large part to the secularization of history, to fixing it in its visible, "objective" form at the expense of the myths that once traversed it. Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itself contributed to liquidating. It only resurrects ghosts, and it itself is lost therein.
 * "History: A Retro Scenario," p. 48

 * Fascism itself, the mystery of its appearance and of its collective energy, with which no interpretation has been able to come to grips (neither the Marxist one of political manipulation by dominant classes, nor the Reichian one of the sexual repression of the masses, nor the Deleuzian one of despotic paranoia), can already be interpreted as the "irrational" excess of mythic and political referentials, the mad intensification of collective value (blood, race, people, etc.), the reinjection of death, of a "political aesthetic of death" at a time when the process of the disenchantment of value and of collective values, of the rational secularization and unidimensionalization of all life, of the operationalization of all social and individual life already makes itself strongly felt in the West. Yet again, everything seems to escape this catastrophe of value, this neutralization and pacification of life. Fascism is a resistance to this, even if it is a profound, irrational, demented resistance, it would not have tapped into this massive energy if it hadn't been a resistance to something much worse. Fascism's cruelty, its terror is on the level of this other terror that is the confusion of the real and the rational, which deepened in the West, and it is a response to that.
 * "History: A Retro Scenario," p. 48

 * Forgetting extermination is part of extermination, because it is also the extermination of memory, of history, of the social, etc. This forgetting is as essential as the event in any case unlocatable by us, inaccessible to us in its truth. This forgetting is still too dangerous, it must be effaced by an artificial memory (today, everywhere, it is artificial memories that effect the memory of man, that efface man in his own memory). This artificial memory will be the restaging of extermination—but late, much too late for it to be able to make real waves and profoundly disturb something, and especially, especially through medium that is itself cold, radiating forgetfulness, deterrence, and extermination in a still more systematic way, if that is possible, than the camps themselves.
 * "Holocaust," p. 49

 * If every strategy today is that of mental terror and of deterrence tied to the suspension and the eternal simulation of catastrophe, then the only means of mitigating this scenario would be to make the catastrophe arrive, to produce or to reproduce a real catastrophe. To which Nature is at times given: in its inspired moments, it is God who through his cataclysms unknots the equilibrium of terror in which humans are imprisoned. Closer to us, this is what terrorism is occupied with as well: making real, palpable violence surface in opposition to the invisible violence of security. Besides, therein lies terrorism's ambiguity.
 * "The China Syndrome," p. 58

 * The very ideology of "cultural production" is antithetical to all culture, as is that of visibility and of the polyvalent space: culture is a site of the secret, of seduction, of initiation, of a restrained and highly ritualized symbolic exchange.
 * "The Beaubourg Effect," p. 64

 * We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
 * "The Implosion of Meaning in the Media," p. 79

 * [In cloning,] the Father and the Mother have disappeared, not in the service of an aleatory liberty of the subject, but in the service of a matrix called code.
 * "Clone Story," p. 96

 * This is how one puts an end to totality. If all information can be found in each of its parts, the whole loses its meaning. It is also the end of the body, of this singularity called body, whose secret is precisely that it cannot be segmented into additional cells, that it is an indivisible configuration, to which its sexuation is witness (paradox: cloning will fabricate sexed beings in perpetuity, since they are similar to their model, whereas thereby sex becomes useless—but precisely sex is not a function, it is what makes a body a body, it is what exceeds all the parts, all the diverse functions of this body). Sex (or death: in this sense it is the same thing) is what exceeds all information that can be collected on a body. Well, where is all this information collected? In the genetic formula. This is why it must necessarily want to forge a path of autonomous reproduction, independent of sexuality and of death.
 * "Clone Story," p. 97

 * It is the fantasy of seizing reality live that continues—ever since Narcissus bent over his spring. Surprising the real in order to immobilize it, suspending the real in the expiration of its double. You bend over the hologram like God over his creature: only God has this power of passing through walls, through people, and finding Himself immaterially in the beyond. We dream of passing through ourselves and of finding ourselves in the beyond: the day when your holographic double will be there in space, eventually moving and talking, you will have realized this miracle. Of course, it will no longer be a dream, so its charm will be lost.
 * "Holograms," p. 105

 * Meaning, truth, the real cannot appear except locally, in a restricted horizon, they are partial objects, partial effects of the mirror and of equivalence. All doubling, all generalization, all passage to the limit, all holographic extension (the fancy of exhaustively taking account of this universe) makes them surface in their mockery. Viewed at this angle, even the exact sciences come dangerously close to pataphysics. Because they depend in some way on the hologram and on the objectivist whim of the deconstruction and exact reconstruction of the world (in its smallest terms) founded on a tenacious and naive faith in a pact of the similitude of things to themselves. The real, the real object is supposed to be equal to itself, it is supposed to resemble itself like a face in a mirror—and this virtual similitude is in effect the only definition of the real—and any attempt, including the holographic one, that rests on it, will inevitably miss its object, because it does not take its shadow into account (precisely the reason why it does not resemble itself)—this hidden face where the object crumbles, its secret. The holographic attempt literally jumps over its shadow, and plunges into transparency, to lose itself there.
 * "Holograms," pp. 108–109

 * One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.
 * "The Animals: Territory and Metamorphoses," p. 131

 * Never would the humanities or psychoanalysis have existed if it had been miraculously possible to reduce man to his "rational" behaviors.
 * "The Animals: Territory and Metamorphoses," p. 132

 * Once animals had a more sacred, more divine character than men. There is not even a reign of the "human" in primitive societies, and for a long time the animal order has been the order of reference. Only the animal is worth being sacrificed, as a god, the sacrifice of man only comes afterward, according to a degraded order. Men qualify only by their affiliation to the animal: the Bororos "are" macaws.
 * "The Animals: Territory and Metamorphoses," p. 133

 * Whatever it may be, animals have always had, until our era, a divine or sacrificial nobility that all mythologies recount. Even murder by hunting is still a symbolic relation, as opposed to an experimental dissection. Even domestication is still a symbolic relation, as opposed to industrial breeding. One only has to look at the status of animals in peasant society. And the status of domestication, which presupposes land, a clan, a system of parentage of which the animals are a part, must not be confused with the status of the domestic pet—the only type of animals that are left to us outside reserves and breeding stations—dogs, cats, birds, hamsters, all packed together in the affection of their master. The trajectory animals have followed, from divine sacrifice to dog cemeteries with atmospheric music, from sacred defiance to ecological sentimentality, speaks loudly enough of the vulgarization of the status of man himself.
 * "The Animals: Territory and Metamorphoses," p. 134

 * Those who used to sacrifice animals did not take them for beasts. And even the Middle Ages, which condemned and punished them in due form, was in this way much closer to them than we are, we who are filled with horror at this practice. They held them to be guilty: which was a way of honoring them. We take them for nothing, and it is on this basis that we are "human" with them. We no longer sacrifice them, we no longer punish them, and we are proud of it, but it is simply that we have domesticated them, worse: that we have made of them a racially inferior world, no longer even worthy of our justice, but only of our affection and social charity, no longer worthy of punishment and of death, but only of experimentation and extermination like meat from the butchery.
 * "The Animals: Territory and Metamorphoses," pp. 134–135

 * The "hard law of value," the "law set in stone"—when it abandons us, what sadness, what panic! This is why there are still good days left to fascist and authoritarian methods, because they revive something of the violence necessary to life—whether suffered or inflicted. The violence of ritual, the violence of work, the violence of knowledge, the violence of blood, the violence of power and of the political is good! It is clear, luminous, the relations of force, contradictions, exploitation, repression! This is lacking today, and the need for it makes itself felt.
 * "Value's Last Tango," p. 156

 * The apocalypse is finished, today it is the precession of the neutral, of forms of the neutral and of indifference. I will leave it to be considered whether there can be a romanticism, an aesthetic of the neutral therein. I don't think so—all that remains, is the fascination for desertlike and indifferent forms, for the very operation of the system that annihilates us. Now, fascination (in contrast to seduction, which was attached to appearances, and to dialectical reason, which was attached to meaning) is a nihilistic passion par excellence, it is the passion proper to the mode of disappearance. We are fascinated by all forms of disappearance, of our disappearance. Melancholic and fascinated, such is our general situation in an era of involuntary transparency. I am a nihilist. I observe, I accept, I assume the immense process of the destruction of appearances (and of the seduction of appearances) in the service of meaning (representation, history, criticism, etc.) that is the fundamental fact of the nineteenth century.
 * "On Nihilism," p. 160

1990s

 * For nothing can be greater than seduction itself, not even the order that destroys it.
 * Seduction (1990)

 * The end of history is, alas, also the end of the dustbins of history. There are no longer any dustbins for disposing of old ideologies, old regimes, old values. Where are we going to throw Marxism, which actually invented the dustbins of history? (Yet there is some justice here since the very people who invented them have fallen in.) Conclusion: if there are no more dustbins of history, this is because History itself has become a dustbin. It has become its own dustbin, just as the planet itself is becoming its own dustbin.
 * The Illusion of the End (1992) (L'Illision de la Fin) Tr. Chris Turner, 1994, Stanford University Press, ISBN 0804725012, p. 26, "The Event Strike"

The Perfect Crime (1993)

 * Translated by Ian Michel and William Sarah (1995)

 * Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.

 * We will never know if an advertisement or opinion poll has had a real influence on individual or collective wills, but we will never know either what would have happened if there had been no opinion poll or advertisement.

Radical Thought (1994)

 * One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into laughter when someone says: this is true, this is real.

 * If the thought enunciates an object as a truth, it is only as a challenge to this object's own self-fulfillment.

 * Not only does reality resist those who still criticize it, but it also abandons those who defend it. Maybe it is a way for reality to get its revenge from those who claim to believe in it for the sole purpose of eventually transforming it: sending back its supporters to their own desires.

 * The simulacrum now hides, not the truth, but the fact that there is none, that is to say, the continuation of Nothingness.

New millennium

 * Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.
 * The Spirit of Terrorism (2003) "The Violence of the Global"

 * Particularly in the case of all professional of press-images which testify of the real events. In making reality, even the most violent, emerge to the visible, it makes the real substance disappear. It is like the Myth of Eurydice : when Orpheus turns around to look at her, she vanishes and returns to hell. That is why, the more exponential the marketing of images is growing the more fantastically grows the indifference towards the real world. Finally, the real world becomes a useless function, a collection of phantom shapes and ghost events. We are not far from the silhouettes on the walls of the cave of Plato.
 * This realistic image, however, does not catch at all what really is, but what should not be - death and misery - what should not exist, from our moral and humanistic point of view. And at the same time making an aesthetic and commercial, perfectly immoral use and abuse of this misery. Images that actually testify, behind their pretended "objectivity", of a deep denial of the real, and of an equal denial of the image - assigned to present what does not even want to be represented, assigned to the rape of the real by burglary.
 * The Violence of the Image European Graduate School.

 * The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
 * Jean Baudrillard in: Eldon Taylor What Does That Mean?: Exploring Mind, Meaning, and Mysteries, Hay House, Inc, 15 January 2010, p. 171

 * To challenge and to cope with this paradoxical state of things, we need a paradoxical way of thinking; since the world drifts into delirium, we must adopt a delirious point of view. We must no longer assume any principle of truth, of causality, or any discursive norm.  Instead, we must grant both the poetic singularity of events and the radical uncertainty of events.  It is not easy.  We usually think that holding to the protocols of experimentation and verification is the most difficult thing.  But in fact the most difficult thing is to renounce the truth and the possibility of verification, to remain as long as possible on the enigmatic, ambivalent, and reversible side of thought.
 * The Vital Illusion (2000) "The Murder of the Real". Wellek Library Lectures given May 1999 at the University of California, Irvine

Photography, or the Writing of Light, (2000)

 * Photography, or the Writing of Light European Graduate School

 * There are only a few images that are not forced to provide meaning, or have to go through the filter of a specific idea.

 * So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

 * It is perhaps not a surprise that photography developed as a technological medium in the industrial age, when reality started to disappear. It is even perhaps the disappearance of reality that triggered this technical form. Reality found a way to mutate into an image.

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Albert Finney

Albert Finney (9 May 1936 – 7 February 2019) was a British actor and director.

Quotes

 * To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
 * As quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988).
 * It seems to me a long way to go just to sit in a non-drinking, non-smoking environment on the offchance your name is called. … It's as if you are entered into a race you don't particularly want to run in. All the hoops you have to jump through on these occasions: it's not my favourite occupation. Walking around in the spotlight having to be me is not something I'm particularly comfortable with or desire. I'd sooner pretend to be someone else.
 * On attending the Academy Awards ceremony, quoted in The Times (24 March 2001).
 * I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.
 * Reply when asked if he thought he was a lot like the character he plays in Big Fish in an interview with Paul Fischer at Dark Horizons (2 December 2003).
 * It's true that old actors don't die, their parts get smaller. You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you're playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around.
 * Interview with Paul Fischer at Dark Horizons (2 December 2003).
 * My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry. The first time that he came to London when I was in the theatre and my name was in lights for the very first time and we had the same name, and he passed the theatre with me on the way, he was going to see a matinee and me, and my mother and he passed the theatre, and I said, 'Look,' and he looked up at my name in lights, and stood there for five minutes, and I'm going, 'I want to have lunch and get back for the matinee,' and I'm with my mother, and he still stood there and so, I went back to get him and he just said, 'I never thought that I'd see my name in lights.'
 * Interview with Paul Fischer at Dark Horizons (2 December 2003).
 * Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.
 * Interview with Paul Fischer at Dark Horizons (2 December 2003).

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Talk:Ozzy Osbourne

ive followed ozzy for as long as i can remember. all the things he has done arent actually that bad its only the same as a bunch of guys going out getting drunk and doing something stupid. so why people make a big deal about it i will never know. all i know is that hes a great guy who has got what ever he wanted and worked very very hard for it.

letrell 17:02 22 oct 2004

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 * I'm not the greatest singer in the world, but I do give people entertainment.
 * 1986

 * I'm the guy kids love and parents hate. The guy mothers love to hate. When you've achieved that, you've achieved a goal.

 * My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.
 * 1985

 * My mother said to me, 'Get a proper job. Quit this f--king around.' She still thinks it's a crazy f--king thing I'm doing.
 * 1985

 * To be honest, I am a little bit crazy. I accept that. I've always been outrageous. I've never been the every day you. I've always gone over the top with everything.
 * 1985

 * If I had to start it all over again, the only thing I would change is I'd learn to read a contract better.
 * 1992

 * I've come to the conclusion that people don't want to know the truth-that I'm a happily married man with three kids that I absolutely adore, and that what I do is entertain people. I am not fucking Dracula.
 * 1989

 * It's good fun and it's had great rewards. It's been such an eye opener for me. Everything that I have ever wanted to have has come from rock and roll. I've had happiness, I've had sadness. I've had everything. I've experienced life, death, birth, marriage, divorce, and it's been a whole bunch of fun. I wouldn't have it any different. I'd do it all again tomorrow.
 * 1986

 * I'm an absolute perfectionist. I'm never happy with a finished album. There's always something I don't like.
 * 1985

 * Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

 * (talking about the dove incident) Sharon gave me these two doves, told me to go into the conference room and throw them up in the air. I did that, but one of them didn't fly...so i picked it up, bit its head off and threw the body towards all the suits around the table...hoping they would, you know, see the funny side.

 * Well listen, how does a sparrow make an emergency landing? With a sparrowchute.

 * We've obviously got what the people want. It's aggressive music and I think America likes aggression.

 * I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots

 * Happiness to me is getting stoned.

 * I know I ain't going to fucking live to be an old man. I know that.

 * I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'
 * Ozzy Osbourne on Black Sabbath

 * I don't know if I'm a medium for some outside source. Whatever it is, frankly, I hope it's not what I think - Satan.

 * He was the first person that came into my life and gave me hope.
 * Ozzy Osbourne about Randy Rhoads.

 * Had he lived, I truly believe he'd have been one of the greatest guitar players that ever walked the earth. He was when he was here.
 * Ozzy Osbourne about Randy Rhoads.

 * Do you know people, I've made many... errr... statements about being sober and, what I can really say is... sobriety fucking sucks!
 * Ozzy Osbourne on sobriety.

 * They say life sucks and then you die, that's pretty much it.

 * I fell in love with Randy as a player and a person the instant I saw him. He had the best smile in the world. Randy was the best guy in the world to work with. There is no comparison between him and Tony Iommi, and I can only compare the two because they were the only guitar players I had ever worked with. I was attracted to Randy's angelic attitude towards the whole business. I didn't have to teach him anything; all that he was lacking was guidance. He listened to every word I spoke to him, and we had a great rapport together.
 * Ozzy Osbourne about Randy Rhoads.

 * If I had done everything they said I've done, I'd be dead.
 * Ozzy Osbourne on his larger-than-life lifestyle.

 * Black Sabbath was a hippie band. We were into peace.
 * Ozzy Osbourne on Black Sabbath

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Trent Lott

Chester Trent Lott, Sr. (born October 9, 1941) is a former American politician. He was the U.S. Senator from Mississippi and a member of the Republican Party between 1988 and 2007. Lott was known for socially conservative political views, and played a major role in the impeachment of Bill Clinton. He served as Senate Majority Leader between 1996 and 2001, and again briefly in 2001. He was expected to return as Senate Majority Leader after the Republicans won the 2002 United States Senate elections, but was forced to resign from the Senate Republican leadership after making comments praising Strom Thurmond's segregationist 1948 presidential campaign.

1980s

 * The spirit of Jefferson Davis lives in the 1984 Republican Platform.
 * Speech before the Sons of Confederate Veterans (1984), as quoted in The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi (2010), by Michael Newton, p. 195.

1990s

 * We need more meetings like this across the nation. The people in this room stand for the right principles and the right philosophy.
 * To the CCC (1992), as quoted in The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi (2010), by Michael Newton, p. 195.

 * I'm sure you petroleum folks understand that solar power will solve all our problems. How much money have we blown on that? This is the hippies' program from the seventies and they're still pushing this stuff.
 * On solar energy in a speech to the Independent Petroleum Association of America, as quoted in The Washington Post (23 May 1997).

 * You could say that I favored segregation then. I don't now.
 * To Time magazine, as quoted in The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi (2010), by Michael Newton, p. 195.

 * I have made my condemnation of the white supremacist and racist view of this group, or any group, clear.
 * To The Washington Post (1998), as quoted in The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi (2010), by Michael Newton, p. 195.

2000s

 * This is not the way it has been done. We would never surprise each other … It's not to say that there's not important information that we could discuss or would be discussed in secret or closed session, but I'm astounded by this. I don't really know what the tenor of this is, what is the justification for it and why this extreme approach was used.
 * On the closure of the Senate to discuss intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq (1 November 2005), as quoted in The Associated Press (1 November 2005).

 * I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either.
 * On Strom Thurmond, from a speech at Thurmond's 100th birthday party (5 December 2002)

 * I've already seen enough. Why would I want to go see a bunch of perverted pictures?
 * On why he did not want to review more evidence during congressional hearings regarding the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, as quoted in The New York Times (2004).

 * I am an advocate of having a gold dollar with Reagan's picture on it, and calling it the Ronnie. The Canadians have the Loonie, and we can have the Ronnie.
 * On Ronald Reagan, as quoted in an interview in the New York Times Sunday Magazine (20 June 2004).

 * I want the President to look across the country and find the best man woman or minority that he can find.
 * On Harriet Miers as Supreme Court Justice.

 * I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.
 * On security versus liberty, as quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer (17 December 2005).
 * c.f. Benjamin Franklin, "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

 * Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israelis and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.
 * On Sunnis and Shia, as quoted in CNN (2006).

 * [Congress] is not the British Parliament, and I hope it never will become the British Parliament... Are we going to bring the president in here and have a question period like the prime minister has in Great Britain?
 * On whether to hold a "vote of no confidence" in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, as quoted in Dana Milbank, "A Jolly Good Show, but the Wrong Side of the Pond" The Washington Post 2007-06-12.

 * The filibuster of federal district and circuit judges cannot stand. … It's bad for the institution. It's wrong. It's not supportable under the Constitution. And if they insist on persisting with these filibusters, I'm perfectly prepared to blow the place up. No problem.
 * On filibustering, as quoted in The Clarion-Ledger (23 May 2003), "Lott aims to change filibuster rules"

 * I support the Kinder-Guardians program. We in America would be wise to implement it, too. It's something that we should think about, America, about putting guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens, good guys, whether they be teachers or whether they actually be talented children or highly-trained preschoolers.
 * On arming 3 year old children, as quoted in "Who is America" Episode 1 on Showtime

2010s

 * We don't need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.
 * as quoted in the The Washington Post, "Republican lawmakers gird for rowdy tea party", (18 July May 2010)

Quotes about Lott

 * Any suggestion that a segregated past was acceptable or positive is offensive and it is wrong. Recent comments by Senator Lott do not reflect the spirit of our country. He has apologized and rightly so. Every day our nation was segregated was a day that America was unfaithful to our founding ideals, and the founding ideals of our nation, and in fact the founding ideals of the political party I represent, was and remains today the equal dignity and equal rights of every American.
 * George W. Bush, Regarding comments made by Trent Lott (12 December 2002), as quoted in "Lott's Remarks on Segregation 'Wrong and Offense'" (13 December 2002), The Irish Times.
 * Lavell William Crump, as quoted in "Lost Souls", Certified (2005).
 * Here is a Civil War movie that Trent Lott might enjoy.
 * Roger Ebert, as quoted in "Gods and Generals" (21 February 2003), Roger Ebert.

 * In 2002, Strom Thurmond, the unrepentant white supremacist and segregationist, turned one hundred years old. His birthday party was attended by then-president George W. Bush, among a roster of other political figures. Trent Lott, the Republican leader in the Senate, said in celebration, "I want to say this about my state [Mississippi]: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either." Segregation and Jim Crow had been part of Thurmond's platform during that campaign.
 * Mary L. Trump, The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal (2021), 1st Edition, New York: St. Martin's Press, p. 155

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Talk:Greek myths

Are these really quotes, or are they just lines from someone's retelling of the stories? Aranel 21:27, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * It looks like this page needs quite a bit of work: Altering some of these statements so that they are comments on some of the classic English translations and renditions of the tales might be a remedy. I might spend some time on it this weekend. ~ Kalki 22:00, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Miriam A. Ferguson

Miriam Amanda "Ma" Ferguson (13 June 1875 – 25 June 1961) became the first woman Governor of Texas in 1924, and the second woman state governor in the United States, after Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming.

Misattributed

 * If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas!
 * Attributed, for example, by, which contains a common version of the story, where Ferguson says this while holding a bible and defending her objection to the teaching of Spanish in Texas public schools
 * According to, a variation on this quote is reported in the New York Times on May 23, 1881, but no record of Ferguson having said this, or anything like it, could be found
 * This quote and variations on it are often attributed to others; one story, usually heard outside the United States, has an unnamed "U.S. congressman" saying it in a television interview; for example, see

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Stranger Than Paradise

Stranger Than Paradise is a 1984 absurdist comedy film about a New Yorker whose life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure.
 * Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch.

Willie

 * Here, let me tell you a joke, all right? There's three guys, and they're walking down the street. One guy says to the other one, "Hey, your shoe's untied." He says, "I know that." And they walk... No... There's two guys, they're walking down the street, and one of them says to the other one, "Your shoe's untied." And the other guy says, "I know that." And they walk a couple blocks further, and they see a third friend, and he comes up and says, "Your shoe's untied." "Your shoe's un — " Aaah, I can't remember this joke. But it's good.

Eva

 * [while vacuuming] I'm choking the alligator.

Eddie

 * [watches plane take off] Aw, Willie. I had a bad feeling. Damn. What the hell are you gonna do in Budapest?

Dialogue

 * Eddie: You know, it's funny... you come to someplace new, an'... and everything looks just the same.
 * Willie: No kiddin', Eddie.

 * Willie: You're sure you don't want a TV dinner?
 * Eva: Yes. I'm not hungry. Why is it called TV dinner?
 * Willie: Um... You're supposed to eat it while you watch TV. Television.
 * Eva: I know what a TV is. Where does that meat come from?
 * Willie: What do you mean?
 * Eva: What does that meat come from?
 * Willie: I guess it comes from a cow.
 * Eva: From a cow? It doesn't even look like meat.
 * Willie: Eva, stop bugging me, will you? You know, this is the way we eat in America. I got my meat, I got my potatoes, I got my vegetables, I got my dessert, and I don't even have to wash the dishes.

 * Eva: I'm going to Cleveland in about a week.
 * Eddie: Cleveland, beautiful city. It's got a big, beautiful lake. You will love it there.
 * Eva: Have you been there?
 * Eddie: No, no.

 * Eddie: You know, last year before I met your cousin, I never know you were from Hungary or Budapest or any of those places.
 * Willie: So what?
 * Eddie: I thought you were an American.
 * Willie: Hey, I'm as American as you are.
 * [Silence. They begin driving into Cleveland]
 * Eddie: Does Cleveland look a little like, uh, Budapest?
 * Willie: Eddie, shut up.

 * Willie: How much money we got left?
 * Eddie: We got a lot.
 * Willie: Count it.
 * Eddie: Hey, Willie, why are you always telling me what to do?
 * Willie: Seems like if I don't tell you what to do, you don't do anything at all.

 * Willie: You ever been to Florida?
 * Eddie: Florida? Yeah, it's beautiful down there.
 * Willie: Uh-huh.
 * Eddie: You know, white beaches, and girls with bikinis...
 * Willie: Yeah.
 * Eddie: Cape Canaveral, Miami Beach...
 * Willie: Cape Canaveral! Miami Beach! That's right.
 * Eddie: They got pelicans down there, and flamingos... all those weird birds.
 * Willie: You been there?
 * Eddie: Nah, I never been there.
 * Willie: You're a jerk, Eddie. You know that?... Nah, come on. What do you say we go down to Florida?
 * Eddie: Yeah?

 * Willie: Eva, going out?
 * Eva: Yeah.
 * Willie: Look, Clinton Street is two blocks south of here. I wouldn't go any further south than Clinton Street.
 * Eva: Why?
 * Willie: It's really dangerous there.
 * Eva: I can take care of myself.
 * Willie: Man, listen, you come, you don't know what's going on this city. You've never been here before. You come and stay in my apartment and I don't even want you here! It's just like, "Yeeeah, I know what's going on." You think you're so 'know-the-fuck-together!'
 * Eva: I'm going alone.
 * Willie: Aw, go alone.

 * Willie: [watching pro football game on TV] You see, you see the guy that's got the ball? That's the quarterback. He can either hand off to one of the runners or he can pass it down field He's kinda like, he's the - he's like the, eh, General, you know. He's sorta like he's in charge the offense. The quarterback is in charge of the whole offense.
 * Eva: So, what does the quarterback do when he becomes the defense?
 * Willie: What?
 * Eva: What does the quarterback do when his team becomes the defense?
 * Willie: Quar - the quar - the quarterback's not on the defense, they already have - I - I - I don't know how to explain this to you. Just watch the game.
 * Eva: I think this game is really stupid.

 * Willie: How much money we got?
 * Eddie: I don't know. We got a lot.
 * Willie: How much is a lot, Eddie?
 * Eddie: We got a lot. We got almost six hundred dollars!
 * Willie: You're alright, Eddie. You know.
 * Eddie: We're a coupla rich men now.

 * Eva: Well, this is it. Lake Erie.
 * Eddie: Man, look at all this snow! Man, it's - it's beautiful.
 * Eva: It's not always frozen.

Cast

 * John Lurie - Willie
 * Eszter Balint - Eva
 * Richard Edson - Eddie
 * Cecillia Stark - Aunt Lotte
 * Danny Rosen - Billy
 * Rammellzee - Man With Money
 * Tom DiCillo - Airline Agent
 * Richard Boes - Factory Worker
 * Rockets Redglare, Harvey Perr and Brian J. Burchill - Poker Players
 * Sara Driver - Girl With Hat
 * Paul Sloane - Motel Owner

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Talk:The Boondock Saints

Does anyone know what the end of the prayer means?

--In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.--

In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

This is talking about God in his three forms. The Father being God, The Son, Jesus. and The Holy Ghost/Spirit, the form God had taken to help guide people in the right direction. (paraphrased from Wikipedia Holy Spirit section)

It's also spoken in Latin...if you wanted to know. The Catholic priests would use Latin during Mass wayyyyy back when.

"Way back when" being the 1960s, of course. Vatican II wasn't THAT long ago.

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Propaganda

Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.

A

 * We are told, that in Turkey, when any Man is the Author of Notorious Falsehoods, it is usual to blacken the whole Front of his House. Nay we have sometimes heard, that an Embassador, whose Business it is (if I may quote his Character in Sir Henry Wotton's Words) to lie for the Good of his Country, has sometimes had this Mark set upon his House; when he been detected in any Piece of feign'd Intelligence, that has prejudiced the Government, and misled the Minds of the People. One could almost wish that the Habitations of such of our own Countrymen as deal in Forgeries detrimental to the Public, were distinguished in the same Manner; that their Fellow-Subjects might be cautioned not to be too easy in giving Credit to them. Were such a Method put in Practice, this Metropolis would be strangely checquered; some entire Parishes would be in Mourning, and several Streets darkened from one End to the other.
 * Joseph Addison, The free-holder: or political essays, (1716)

 * Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, however, if they happen to touch upon an issue of authentic concern, is no longer subject to their control and may easily produce consequences they never foresaw or intended.
 * Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), Postscript to the revised (1965) edition

 * Propaganda is a monologue that is not looking for an answer, but an echo.
 * W. H. Auden, A Short Defense of Poetry (October 1967)

B

 * If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it? The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible, at least up to a certain point and within certain limits.
 * Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)

 * The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.
 * Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928), p. 10

 * We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. ... In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons ... who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.
 * Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928), p. 10

 * No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.
 * Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)

 * Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.
 * Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)

 * The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.
 * Edward Bernays, "The Engineering of Consent", Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science No. 250 (March 1947)

 * Goebbels ... was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me.
 * Edward Bernays, Biography of an Idea: Memoirs of Public Relations Counsel (1965)

C

 * The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.
 * Alex Carey, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty (1995), p. 18

 * The success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.
 * Alex Carey, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty (1995), p. 21

 * One reason that propaganda often works better on the educated than on the uneducated is that educated people read more, so they receive more propaganda. Another is that they have jobs in management, media, and academia and therefore work in some capacity as agents of the propaganda system--and they believe what the system expects them to believe. By and large, they're part of the privileged elite, and share the interests and perceptions of those in power.
 * Noam Chomsky in Propaganda, American-style, ZPub (1987)

 * For those who stubbornly seek freedom around the world, 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 propaganda system to which we are subjected and in which all too often we serve as unwilling or unwitting instruments.
 * Noam Chomsky in Propaganda, American-style, ZPub (1987)

 * [In] democratic societies … the state can't control behavior by force. It can to some extent, but it's much more limited in its capacity to control by force. Therefore, it has to control what you think. … One of the ways you control what people think is by creating the illusion that there's a debate going on, but making sure that that debate stays within very narrow margins. Namely, you have to make sure that both sides in the debate accept certain assumptions, and those assumptions turn out to be the propaganda system. As long as everyone accepts the propaganda system, then you can have a debate.
 * Noam Chomsky, Chronicles of Dissent; Propaganda in the US vs in the USSR (24 October 1986)

 * State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.
 * Noam Chomsky Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda'' (1991)

 * Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
 * Noam Chomsky, Interview on WBAI, January 1992

 * But perhaps we are wrong. Perhaps our memory deceives us. Dr. Goebbels and his Propaganda Machine have their own version of what happened twenty-five years ago. To hear them talk, you would suppose that it was Belgium that invaded Germany! There they were, these peaceful Prussians, gathering in their harvests, when this wicked, Belgium – set on by England and the Jews – fell upon them; and would no doubt have taken Berlin, if Corporal Adolf Hitler had not come to the rescue and turned the tables. Indeed, the tale goes further. After four years of war by land and sea, when Germany was about to win an overwhelming victory, the Jews got at them again, this time from the rear. Armed with President Wilson’s Fourteen Points they stabbed, we are told, the German armies in the back, and induced them to ask for an armistice, and even persuaded them, in an unguarded moment, to sign a paper saying that it was they and not the Belgians who had been the ones to begin the War. Such is history as it is taught in topsy-turvydom. And now it is holiday again, and where are we now? Or, as you sometimes ask in the United States – where do we go from here?
 * Winston Churchill, A Hush Over Europe, 8 August 1939

D

 * The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized.
 * Elmer Holmes Davis as quoted in Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War II Movies by Clayton R. Koppes and Gregory D. Black (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) p. 64.

E

 * Through the myth it creates, propaganda imposes a complete range of intuitive knowledge, susceptible of only one interpretation, unique and one-sided, and precluding any divergence. This myth becomes so powerful that it invades every arena of consciousness, leaving no faculty or motivation intact. It stimulates in the individual a feeling of exclusiveness, and produces a biased attitude.
 * Jacques Ellul, in Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1962), as translated by Konrad Kellen & Jean Lerner (1965)

 * Modern propaganda is based on scientific analyses of psychology and sociology. Step by step, the propagandist builds his techniques on the basis of his knowledge of man, his tendencies, his desires, his needs, his psychic mechanisms, his conditioning — and as much on social psychology as on depth psychology. He shapes his procedures on the basis of our knowledge of groups and their laws of formation and dissolution, of mass influences, and of environmental limitations. Without the scientific research of modern psychology and sociology there would be no propaganda, or rather we still would be in the primitive stages of propaganda that existed in the time of Pericles or Augustus.
 * Jacques Ellul, in Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1962), as translated by Konrad Kellen & Jean Lerner (1965), p. 4

 * The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.
 * Jacques Ellul, in Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1962), as translated by Konrad Kellen & Jean Lerner (1965), p. 9

 * Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.
 * Jacques Ellul, in Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1962), as translated by Konrad Kellen & Jean Lerner (1965), p. 38

 * Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.
 * Jacques Ellul, in Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1962), as translated by Konrad Kellen & Jean Lerner (1965), p. 38

 * We can now advance a definition of propaganda — not an exhaustive definition, unique and exclusive of all others, but at least a partial one: Propaganda is a set of methods employed by an organized group that wants to bring about the active or passive participation in its actions of a mass of individuals, psychologically unified through psychological manipulations and incorporated in an organization.
 * Jacques Ellul, in Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1962), as translated by Konrad Kellen & Jean Lerner (1965), p. 61

 * There remains the problem of Goebbels' reputation. He wore the title of Big Liar (bestowed by Anglo-Saxon propaganda) and yet he never stopped battling for propaganda to be as accurate as possible. He preferred being cynical and brutal to being caught in a lie. He used to say: "Everybody must know what the situation is." He was always the first to announce disastrous events or difficult situations, without hiding anything. The result was a general belief between 1939 and 1942 that German communiqués not only were more concise, clearer and less cluttered, but were more truthful than Allied communiqués (American and neutral opinion) — and, furthermore, that the Germans published all the news two or three days before the Allies. All this is so true that pinning the title of Big Liar on Goebbels must be considered quite a propaganda success.
 * Jacques Ellul, "The Characteristics of Propaganda" in Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays edited by Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell, (SAGE, 2006) p. 48, note 47

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 * Both Superpowers used propaganda to penetrate their enemy’s territory. From the Kremlin came torrents of upbeat economic reports and antifascist diatribes as well as attacks on Western racism, capitalism, warmongering, and imperialism, which were echoed by Communist Party leaders and adherents in the West. The other side sent radio broadcasts in the national languages of Eastern Europe from the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and the BBC with news from the outside world, encouraging the “captive populations” to seek freedom from Moscow’s domination.
 * Carole C. Fink, The Cold War: An International History, p. 90

G

 * We use the term “junk news” to include various forms of propaganda and ideologically extreme, hyperpartisan, or conspiratorial political news and information. Much of this content is deliberately produced false reporting. It seeks to persuade readers about the moral virtues or failings of organizations, causes or people and presents commentary as a news product...[using] ad hominem attacks, emotionally charged words and pictures, unsafe generalizations and other logical fallacies.
 * John D Gallacher et al. in "Junk News on Military Affairs and National Security: Social Media Disinformation Campaigns Against US Military Personnel and Veterans" Oxford Democracy and Technology Programme (October, 2017)

 * Scientifically regarded, propaganda is merely a form of mental suggestion.
 * Edward Glover, The Psychology of Fear and Courage (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1940), p. 52

 * All effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands.
 * Joseph Goebbels quoted by  Zachary Jonathan Jacobson in Many are worried about the return of the 'Big Lie.' They're worried about the wrong thing . The Washington Post, 21 May 2018

 * Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.
 * Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials

 * Pope Gregory XV made a new start by setting up in 1622 the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith... The new Congregation was supposed to supervise the missions and coordinate their activities. In due course, it came to be known as Propaganda from its Latin name — Propaganda di Fide. An otherwise innocent word was to acquire a bad odour in succeeding centuries because of its association with Popery. Though this department is still an integral part of the Pope's establishment at Rome, it has been renamed the Sacred Congregation for Evangelisation of Peoples. The shame which this set-up has brought upon the Pope by its close cooperation with Western imperialism for four-and-a-half centuries, is being sought to be hidden by a bit of linguistic surgery.
 * About the history of the word 'propaganda'. Sita Ram Goel (1986). Papacy: Its doctrine and history, p. 71

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 * Propaganda must be limited to a few simple themes and these must be represented again and again. Here, as in innumerable other cases, perseverance is the first and most important condition of success.
 * Variant: No amount of genius spent on the creation of propaganda will lead to success if a fundamental principle is not forever kept in mind. Propaganda must confine itself to very few points, and repeat them endlessly. Here, as with so many things in this world, persistence is the first and foremost condition of success.
 * Adolf Hitler, in Mein Kampf (1925) ; translated to English by James Murphy (February 1939)

 * In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.
 * Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter 9, (1925)

 * We tend today to exaggerate the effectiveness of persuasion as a means of inculcating opinion and shaping behavior. ...Actually the fabulous effects ascribed to propaganda have no greater foundation in fact than the fall of the walls of Jericho ascribed to the blast of Joshua's trumpets.
 * Eric Hoffer, The True Believer (1951) Ch.14 Unifying Agents, §83

 * Russians might not believe official media, but might also choose — perhaps subconsciously — not to acknowledge the extent to which they allow themselves to be deceived. (It bears mentioning that social media analysts of the 2016 US presidential election noted a similar phenomenon: Citizens can, and often do, choose to believe comfortable falsehoods, instead of admitting to truths that disrupt their desired way of seeing the world.) Looking at Russian television news after the takeover of Crimea in 2014, journalist Maria Lipman concluded that the more extreme and far-fetched the claims of various programs became, the more their audiences grew. “Russian viewers tuned into shows,” she and two colleagues argued in a 2018 essay, “in search of not truth, but emotional gratification.” Viewers wanted to believe wildly distorted media stories that affirmed “national pride and a sense of vindication.”
 * Cynthia Hooper, in "Russia’s information war: painful truths vs. comfortable lies" by Cynthia Hooper, in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (9 March 2022)

 * All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
 * Aldous Huxley, in "Pacifism and Philosophy" (1936)

 * The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
 * Aldous Huxley, The Olive Tree (1937). New York: Harper & Brothers, p. 101

K

 * Highly intelligent people hate to admit they have fallen for such propaganda, and often get angry when it is suggested to them that they have.
 * Tony Kevin, Ukraine shrinks again, in Pearls and Irritations:John Menadue's Public Policy Journal, Feb 23, 2022

L

 * His (Hitler's) primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
 * Walter C. Langer in Adolf Hitler: Psychological Analysis of Hitler’s Life & Legend, PDF at cia.gov, Office of Strategic Services (the intelligence agency of the United States during World War II), 1943

 * What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...The very men who most loudly proclaim their “materialism” and their contempt for “ideologues,” the Marxian communists, place their entire hope on what? On the formation by propaganda of a class-conscious group. But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?
 * Walter Lippmann Public Opinion (1922)

 * Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct a propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event. Access to the real environment must be limited, before anyone can create a pseudo-environment that he thinks wise or desirable. ...It is often very illuminating, therefore, to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion? Was it the man who told you, or the man who told him, or someone still further removed? And how much was he permitted to see?
 * Walter Lippmann Public Opinion (1922)

 * Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real. They come, we imagine, directly to us without human meddling, and they are the most effortless food for the mind conceivable.
 * Walter Lippmann Public Opinion (1922)

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 * Propaganda is defined as the manipulation of the public to the end of securing some specific action.
 * Everett Dean Martin, Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929)

 * Its aim is to “put something over” on people, with or without their knowledge or consent… neither truth nor the basic values of civilization get a fair hearing.
 * Everett Dean Martin, Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929)

 * Prejudice and the well-known weaknesses of human nature are to be exploited and thus encouraged.
 * Everett Dean Martin, Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929)

 * So long as the public may be manipulated by misrepresentation and by appeal to ignorance and prejudice, it is the public’s own fault if the “knowing ones” make use of questionable methods.
 * Everett Dean Martin, Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929)

 * The evil effect of these attempts to manipulate the multitude by pampering its weaknesses — in return for material and other advantages to persons and for ends not disclosed — is clearly seen in various aspects of our common life. In politics such effect have long been deplorable.
 * Everett Dean Martin, Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929)

 * It is the trivial, the irrelevant, the sensational, the appeal to obsolete bigotry which naturally give it greatest publicity. In such publicity it becomes a mere vulgar caricature of itself.
 * Everett Dean Martin, Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929)

 * One of the serious results of propaganda is that it has caused the public to think that education and propaganda are the same thing, and thus to make an ignorant multitude believe it is being educated when it is only being manipulated. Education aims at independence of judgement. Propaganda offers ready-made opinions for the unthinking herd.
 * Everett Dean Martin, Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929)

 * The educator aims at a slow process of development; the propagandist, at quick results. The educator tries to tell people how to think; the propagandist, what to think. The educator strives to develop individual responsibility; the propagandist, mass effects. The educator wants thinking; the propagandist, action. The educator fails unless he achieves an open mind; the propagandist, unless he achieves a closed mind.
 * Everett Dean Martin, Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929)

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 * The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production.
 * Karl Marx, The German Ideology (1846), p. 64

O

 * Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible...
 * If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened — that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death? And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth.
 * Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'...
 * George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Chapter III.

P

 * In the war of propaganda it is very difficult to defeat the United States because the United States controls all the world’s media and many European media. The ultimate beneficiary of the biggest European media are American financial institutions. Don't you know that? So it is possible to get involved in this work, but it is cost prohibitive, so to speak. We can simply shine the spotlight on our sources of information, and we will not achieve results. It is clear to the whole world what happened, and even American analysts talk about it directly. It's true.
 * Vladimir Putin, Interview to Tucker Carlson, 9 February 2024

S

 * Never has the media been so influential in determining the course of war as during the Al-Aqsa Intifada, which, as far as the Western media are concerned, has essentially become a battle over images and ideas. Israel has already poured hundreds of millions of dollars into what in Hebrew is called hasbara, or information for the outside world (hence, propaganda). This has included an entire range of efforts: lunches and free trips for influential journalists; seminars for Jewish university students who, over a week in a secluded country estate, can be primed to “defend” Israel on the campus; bombarding congressmen and women with invitations and visits; pamphlets and, most important, money for election campaigns; directing (or, as the case requires, harassing) photographers and writers of the current intifada into producing certain images and not others; lecture and concert tours by prominent Israelis; training commentators to make frequent references to the Holocaust and Israel’s predicament today; many advertisements in the newspapers attacking Arabs and praising Israel; and on and on. Because so many powerful people in the media and publishing business are strong supporters of Israel, the task is made vastly easier.
 * Edward Said, "Propaganda and War" (2001), published in From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map (2004)

 * Propaganda is not French, it is not civilized to want other people to believe what you believe because the essence of being civilised is to possess yourself as you are, and if you possess yourself as you are you of course cannot possess any one else, it is not your business.
 * Gertrude Stein, in Paris France (1940), p. 56

T

 * While few in Britain or Germany wanted a war, it is a historical fact that the mass of the people in both countries eventually tolerated one, and participated, if not with enthusiasm, then with a grim determination. This is especially true of the journey undertaken by the mass of the public in Germany, which had been deeply reluctant go to war in September 1938 over the Sudetenland, but a little less than a year later allowed itself to be persuaded that conflict with Poland was legitimate and necessary. The propaganda campaign undertaken by the Nazi regime to this end provides a near-perfect example of how, when a government exercises total control of information, an entire nation can be bent to its will.
 * Frederick Taylor, 1939: A People's History (2020)

X
If you aren't careful, because I've seen some of you caught in that bag, you run away hating yourself and loving the man — while you're catching hell from the man. You let the man maneuver you into thinking that it's wrong to fight him when he's fighting you. He's fighting you in the morning, fighting you in the noon, fighting you at night and fighting you all in between, and you still think it's wrong to fight him back. Why? The press. The newspapers make you look wrong.
 * The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
 * Malcolm X, Speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem (13 December 1964), later published in Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements (1965), edited by George Breitman, p. 93

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Talk:Joseph Goebbels

Archive of discussions on Joseph Goebbels page

"Lenin oder Hitler?" quote
So, on 8 March 2020, an anonymous user culled a lot of quotes from the page, saying "Trust me, I’ve read the texts these are supposedly from. They’re not in them." Now, for research purposes, I am very interested in one of the quotes that was culled: "Capitalism is the immoral distribution of capital...Germany will become free at that moment when the thirty millions on the left and the thirty millions on the right make common cause. Only one movement is capable of doing this: National Socialism, embodied in one Führer – Adolf Hitler." It was attributed to a speech given by Goebbels and then published as "Lenin or Hitler?" by Streiter-Verlag in Zwickau, in 1926. I have been unable to find any copies of this speech for me to confirm the quote, but I have found scholarly works referencing the speech for other reasons (Doctor Goebbels: His Life and Work, and Goebbels: A Biography). Does anyone know where I might read the speech for myself, or, better, does anyone know where I might find the above quote? And if it is fabricated or inaccurate, does anyone know why or by whom? Thank you.

Unsourced

 * These require citations to adequate sources before being placed into the main article.

 * Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

 * A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity.

 * We are striving not for truth, but effect.

 * The worst enemy of any propaganda, it is intellectualism.

 * For the lie to be believable, it should be terrifying.

 * "A lie repeated thousands of times becomes a truth." A false quotation that is also spread as "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventurally come to believe it."

 * Some day the lie will fall under its own weight and the truth will rise.

 * I am very interested in social developments in America. I believe that President Roosevelt has chosen the right path.  We are dealing with the greatest social problems ever known.  Millions of unemployed must get their jobs back, and this cannot be left to private initiative.  It is the government that must tackle the problem.
 * 1934 interview.

 * One of the most ridiculous aspects of democracy will always remain... the fact that it has offered to its mortal enemies the means by which to destroy it.

 * Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill... tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.
 * September 1940

 * It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrer's birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today.
 * April 26, 1945

 * We have a feeling that Germany has been transformed into a great house of God, including all classes, professions and creeds, where the Führer as our mediator stood before the throne of the Almighty.
 * April 19, 1936 broadcast

 * We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.
 * January 17, 1936 Wikipedia entry: Guns or Butter

 * If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses.
 * This comment should be added to the "Misattributed" section of the article: while Goebbels did not specifically speak these quotes, the quotes are a "paraphrase" of the quote that is correctly attributed to him. So, it's not a misattribution, it's a common sense "paraphrase" of what the man actually said. This is the same problem with the Sinclair Lewis quote from 1935, where he said, "When Fascism comes to America, it'll be wrapped in a flag and waving a cross". Now, while Lewis didn't say that in so many words in one statement, there are two pieces of his writing that, if you paraphrase them, the correct interpretation is made. I've researched it myself. I've come to the conclusion that Lewis "paraphrased" himself so that the media to whom he spoke could have a quote that encapsulates what he meant. 184.100.225.200

 * If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction.

 * If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear.

Sounds more like a left-winger
Bashing captialism, prefering communist Russia as a close ally and seeing little difference between Stalin and Hitler in the first four quotes being shown here on this page.…

 * Came here to comment on the same. It's quite curious that so many of the quotes in the opening section are concerned with Communism instead of Nazism.

 * What_Wikiquote_is_not Cagliost (talk) 11:01, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

 * Yes, bold text is being used to draw attention to elements of Goebbels' propaganda that uses words relating to socialism and communism, presumably to insinuate equivalence between leftist and far-right anti-capitalist stances. The bold appears to have been added by the user HenryGarden1000. The history of this user's edits suggests that similar bias is being applied to quotes relating to fascism and socialism (implying a relationship between the two), and relating to libertarianism (where anti-leftist text is in bold). What action can be taken?

September 1934 in Nuremberg
I have read following attributed:
 * Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth. It is a mistake to believe that people cannot take the truth. They can. It is only a matter of presenting the truth to people in a way that they will be able to understand. A propaganda that lies proves that it has a bad cause. It cannot be successful in the long run.

Anyone know source? ScratchMarshall (talk) 00:23, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Source: https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb59.htm

Referenda quotation
On 1 December 2017, User:HenryGarden1000 added in the quotation,

 * "The nation and the government in Germany are one thing. The will of the people is the will of the government and vice versa. The modern structure of the German State is a higher form of democracy [ennobled democracy] in which, by virtue of the people’s mandate, the government is exercised authoritatively while there is no possibility for parliamentary interference, to obliterate and render ineffective the execution of the nation’s will."

citing

 * "“On National-Socialist Germany And Her Contribution Towards Peace.” Speech to the representatives of the international press at Geneva on December 28. 1933. German League of Nations Union News Service, PRO, FO 371/16728"

Recently I've seen this quote appear in whole or part around the internet. Googling for this quotation, or the speech "On National-Socialist Germany And Her Contribution Towards Peace", returns only a few results, which all are later than the addition to this page.

"German League of Nations Union News Service" brings up only 14 results on Google which all appear to be copied from this citation. FO 371 appears as a collection in the nationalarchives.gov.uk search, but reference 16728 does not. There are only two items that appear in FO 371 relating to Goebbels, FO 371/24838/7319 and  FO 371/21791/13045, neither of which is available online but they are dated much later than 1933.

It looks like the origin of this quote is in fact this wikiquote page. I'm going to remove it unless someone else can provide a correct reference for it. --JCrue (talk) 14:43, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

The National Archives entry is - that file is Germany, 1933. So it is plausible, but since the content isn't online, can't be sure. --

Here's the correct reference:

Recent addition
About this edit, that quote is way too butchered to be quotable, and the German source is not easly verifible. Rupert Loup 00:01, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I just added a part of the previous addition -- the source/Reuth quoted in the way I had added it before. What is left now should be long enough -- it's clearly not "butchered". 93.224.106.105 21:31, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I really think that context should be added. If you can add the complete missing content, even if it is in German, would be appreciate it. Rupert Loup 13:26, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

NYT article
About this edit, there is no statement by Goebbels quoted in that report by the NYT, and that article is not widely quoted either, failing WQ:Q. Rupert Loup 10:35, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The article is reprinted in Marcy Lane Johnson Golde, The Rise of Hitler and the American Press, 1922–1933 (Stanford University Press, 1957), p. 28, where Goebbels is quoted as comparing Lenin to Hitler. This is a reliable source.--Britannicus (talk) 11:14, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * In which part is quoted? I don't see any quote in that article. Rupert Loup 11:57, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * "On the speaker's Dr. Goebbels' assertion that Lenin was the greatest man, second only to Hitler, and that the difference between communism and the Hitler faith was very slight", from Marcy Lane Johnson Golde, The Rise of Hitler and the American Press, 1922–1933 (Stanford University Press, 1957), p. 28. The reference for this in the book is The New York Times, November 28, 1925, page 4, column 2. The book is a reliable source published by Stanford University and therefore there is no reason to delete it.--Britannicus (talk) 12:15, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I said "in which part is quoted?" There is no repetition of an utterance in quotative markers there. It's an obscure attribution by an anonymous author. Rupert Loup 12:34, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * It is not unusual for newspaper articles to be unsigned, therefore that's no reason to exclude it. The quote is in past tense, which is not unusual in newspaper articles either. Both the NY Times and the book published by Stanford University Press are reliable sources. Also, the quote is not very different from the other Goebbels' quotes from the 1920s in this page. There is no valid reason to delete it.--Britannicus (talk) 12:45, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * An anonymous article published in the New York Times during the 20's about Lenin is not a reliable source. And since no proof that this is a quote from Goebbels was presented here, it won't stay in WQ. Rupert Loup 13:04, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Just because it's in past tense doesn't stop it being a quote. There is a reliable primary source (NY Times) and a reliable secondary source (Golde's book published by Stanford University Press) for this quote.--Britannicus (talk) 13:11, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The NYT reporting was neither unbiased nor accurate during the 20s, I'm also not convinced that a book written by an obscure author during the McCarthyist era is a reliable source here. Rupert Loup 13:36, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * That is merely your opinion. A book published by Stanford University Press meets WQ's source guidelines. The quote is also in keeping with the others from the 1920s in this article.--Britannicus (talk) 13:50, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Some corroborating evidence from an academic article: "Goebbels even idealized Nikolai Lenin, one of the founders of Russian Communism" - Kenneth J. Campbell, 'Joseph Goebbels: Propagandist', American Intelligence Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2012), p. 126. Also: "According to Goebbels, no czar had understood the Russian people's nationalistic instincts as well as Lenin, who...was not an internationalist Marxist. [Quoting Goebbels:] 'Lenin sacrificed Marx and instead gave Russia freedom'." Ralf Georg Reuth, Goebbels (1993), p. 66.--Britannicus (talk) 15:12, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
 * That are commentaries about him, not quotes by him. Rupert Loup 22:06, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * As far as I am aware, Wikiquote has not forbidden the NYT from being used as a source. It is merely in your opinion.--Britannicus (talk) 22:09, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * That's right, that is a quote by the NYT, non from Goebbles. Rupert Loup 22:17, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * The NYT reported Goebbels' speech in the past tense, which is not unusual for a newspaper. As far as I'm aware, that doesn't disqualify it from being used on Wikiquote. There are other examples on other pages.--Britannicus (talk) 22:21, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Nobody is stoping you to put the full quote by the NYT in the correct section on quotes about Goebbels, taking quotes out of context from a biased source is against WQ policies. Rupert Loup 22:26, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Has WQ ruled that the NYT is a "biased source"?--Britannicus (talk) 22:44, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Does anyone know the source for this quote?
"The ordinary Bürger, the ordinary citizen, will not vote for us, unless they’re terrified that the communists, that the Bolsheviks are coming for their property. Only if we can terrify them into thinking that the Bolsheviks, that communism is nigh, that it’s right around the corner and their property is going to be seized—only then will they run into our arms as their protectors." https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-10-23/how-fascism-works-the-politics-of-us-and-them/

Goebbels on freedom of speech (help wanted)
I am not familiarized with wikiquote projects. I usually edit wikipedias and wiktionaries. I kindly ask, then, for someone to add this quote "Daß Ihr das [Freiheit der Meinung] uns gegeben habt, - das ist ja ein Beweis dafür, wie dumm Ihr seid!" I would translate that as "The fact that they gave us that [freedom of speech] is, for sure, one proof of how dumb they are!" Source: w:Saarländischer Rundfunk, [https://www.sr-mediathek.de/index.php?seite=7&id=37143 Rede von Reichsminister (…) Joseph Goebbels (…) am 4. Dezember 1935], from 15:29 to 15:34. Thanks a lot --Usien6 (talk) 23:44, 10 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Word-for-word translation: That you-SINGULAR-FORMAL that [freedom of-the-opinion] to-us given have that is yes one/a proof for-that how dumb you-SINGULAR-FORMAL are." --Usien6 (talk) 23:55, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

...we are the German left
This quote is sourced to Der Angriff (Dec. 6,1931) and found reported in a later book by Wolfgang Venohr: Documents of German existence: 500 years of German national history 1445-1945, Athenäum Verlag, 1980, p. 291. But I cannot find Venohr's book and the only other sources that quote it are non-rs right-wing websites. So either the quote is false or too insignificant to include. The Four Deuces (talk) 00:49, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

 * Somebody probably translated the German title of the book to English. I found a copy in German at archive.org but I only have access to the first 10 pages without a user account there. Thuresson (talk) 01:04, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I found the quote in Venohr's book. The Four Deuces (talk) 02:27, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

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