The mass media, the culture, everything laying its eggs under my skin. Big Brother filling me with need. Do I really want a big house, a fast car, a thousand beautiful sex partners? Do I really want these things? Or am I trained to want them? Chuck Palahniuk Lullaby mass media consumer society consumption life quotes
One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. George Orwell war hate human, people
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. George Orwell 1984 Winston Smith Ironic Quotes
They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something. Freddie Mercury Russia debauchery
I have certain rules I live by; my first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me… nothing, zero, no, and I don’t take very seriously, the media or the press in this country, who in the case of the Persian Gulf war were nothing more than unpaid employees of the Department of Defence, and who most of the time, most of the time functioned as kind of an unofficial public relations agency for the United States government. So I don’t listen to them, I don’t really believe in my country and I gotta tell you folks, I don’t get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them to be symbols and I leave symbols to the symbol-minded. George Carlin: Jammin' in New York George Carlin war mass media
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? Bertrand Russell hate
The billions shift from side to side And the wars go on with brainwashed pride. Guns N' Roses Civil War war