Occupation: Philosopher Birth: January 6, 1912 Death: May 19, 1994
It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale..
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible..
Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper ….
God is not an encyclopedia whose task is to satisfy our curiosity..
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But thi….
The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action..
Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ….
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act..
It is inconceivable that the God who gives Himself in His Son to save us, should have created some people ordained to evil and damnation. There can o….
Propaganda begins when dialogue ends..
The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read..
When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystica….
The will of the world is always a will to death, a will to suicide. We must not accept this suicide, and we must so act that it cannot take place..
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society..
Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to ….
If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is….
The propagandist must utilize all of the technical means at his disposal - the press, radio, TV, movies, posters, meetings, door-to-door canvassing..….
When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them.
People think that they have no right to judge a fact - all they have to do is to accept it. Thus from the moment that technics, the State, or product….
We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the result of the Word of God. We can experience ….
No technique is possible when men are free. Technique requires predictability and, no less, exactness of prediction. It is necessary, then, that tech….