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«Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.»
Author: Avram Noam Chomsky
(Activist, Linguist)
| About:
Propaganda
| Keywords:
bludgeon, bludgeoning, bludgeons, propaganda, totalitarian, totalitarian state
«In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.»
«We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Democracy,
Equality,
Human Nature,
Politics
| Keywords:
bludgeon, bludgeoning, bludgeons, democracy, For, For the, means, people, simply, The People
«DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dullness having blighted the crops. For some centuries they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually overspread all Europe, occupying most of the high places in politics, art, literature, science and theology. Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the _Mayflower_ and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
authorities, bludgeon, bludgeoning, bludgeons, checking, classics, degrade, free expression, preventing, The Classics
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