Alan Bullock Quote

"No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance."

by:	Alan Bullock [Alan Louis Charles Bullock, Baron Bullock] (1914-2004) British historian
Source:	in Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives (1991)
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Categories:	Control, Dissent, Propaganda, Psycho-politics, Uniformity
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None dare call it conspiricy and the truth of 9 / 11 comes to mind.  -- Mike, Norwalk
Interesting, sounds what Archer is trying to do on this site.  -- Waffler, Smith
Rings true for me. And I see it around me. Reading the quotes of the founding fathers and their contemporaries the ideas seem radical in today's climate and that is disturbing!  -- Victoria Accardo, Lake Hopatcong
Marxism is the opposite to Starlin's grotesque rule.  -- Anonymous
That Stalin was a murdering fascist dictator. The statement seems to underline how most megalomaniacs attempt to wash their deeds in the light of public opinion.  -- Jamie, Nelson
This only works if the dictator, emperor, or king can maintain absolute control by constantly terrorizing the people. In softer tyrranies propoganda is used first to gradually transform the youth and immigrant populations.  -- Justin, Elkland
The brainwashing and enslaving of the masses with electronic trinkets and an addiction to a life-style obsession is the modern vehicle of propaganda. Awaken you blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! Oh you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome.  -- L. Hanson, Edmonton, Canada
Hope....change....dope....chains....  -- Ken, Allyn, WA
(-; Ken, that's really good ;-)  -- Mike, Norwalk
Excellent!  -- E Archer, NYC

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