Quotation Collection

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. A. J. Liebling

• media

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. Will Rogers

• politics
• politicians
• government

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. Oscar Wilde

• writing
• reading
• books

Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger. Hermann Goering

• war
• patriotism
• peace

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