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«(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth»
Author: Jacques Ellul
| About:
Influence,
Propaganda
| Keywords:
conditioned, conditioned reflex, manipulations, modification, modifications, myth, proceeds, propaganda, psychological, routes, stereotypes, sub, The Myth, when the time comes
«One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
| Keywords:
admirable, Christianized, families, features, fiber, fibers, fulfil, Happy Family, heroic, Marriages, myth, normal family, oddest, stable, The Myth, Western
«The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me»
«The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
contrived, contrives, contriving, deliberate, deliberates, Deliberating, dishonest, myth, persistent, persuasive, The Myth, unrealistic
«The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
announce, inevitably, myth, production, The Myth, unlimited
«The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Authority
| Keywords:
dependent, dependent on, imperil, imperiled, imperils, legitimacy, lest, myth, sound judgment, The Authority, The Myth, tied
«Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.»
«The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.»
«As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
age, atomic, beings, greatness, human beings, myth, remade, remake, remakes, remaking, so much, The Myth
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