Quotes
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by
subduing the freeness of speech." Benjamin Franklin
"All warfare is based on deception." The Art Of War Sun
Tzu
"The first casualty of war is truth." Rudyard Kipling
"If you give a man the correct information
information for seven years, he may believe the incorrect information on
the first day of the eighth year when it is necessary, from your point of
view, that he should do so. Your first job is to build the credibility and
the authenticity of your propaganda, and persuade the enemy to trust you
although you are his enemy."
A Psychological Warfare Casebook Operations Research Office Johns Hopkins
University Baltimore (1958)
"By way of deception, thou shalt do war."
Motto of the Mossad
"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can
fail.
Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he
who enacts laws." Abraham Lincoln
"Politics is the womb in which war develops." Carl von
Clausewitz
"One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of
public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms
of propaganda." General Douglas MacArthur
"News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is
advertising".
former NBC news prez Rubin Frank
"Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide
they
ought to have."
Richard Salent, Former President CBS News.
"Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of
terrorism
whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes
remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty
of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they
can wreak terror upon other nations...It's real, and that's the reason why
we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts."
Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997 counterterrorism
conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn.