The master propagandist, like the advertising expert, avoids obvious emotional appeals and strives for a tone that is consistent w...ith the prosaic quality of modern life--a dry, bland matter-of-factness. Nor does the propagandist circulate "intentionally biased" information. He knows that partial truths serve as more effective instruments of deception than lies. Then he tries to impress the public with statistics of economic growth that ne glect to give the base year from which the growth is calculated, with accurate but meaningless facts about the standard of living--with raw and uninterpreted data, in other words, from which the audience is invited to draw the inescapable conclusion that things are getting better and the present regime therefore deserves the people's confidence.... By using accurate details to imply a misleading picture of the whole, the artful propagandist, it has been said, makes truth the principal form of falsehood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,... And speed glum heroes up the line to death,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep searched with saucy looks;... Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above,... Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain, Ascend to heaven in honour of my love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself g...et good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The things that were coming to be talked about Have come and gone and are still remembered... As being recent. There is a grain of curiosity At the base of some new thing, that unrolls Its question mark like a new wave on the shore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »