In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
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The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.Jacques Ellul
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It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.
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Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
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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
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