(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth

One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witness to their misery, then, infallibly, violence will suddenly break out. In one way or another 'their blood cries to heaven,' and violence will seem the only way out. It will be too late to try to calm them and create harmony.

There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.

Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

Everyone has been taught that technique is an application of science.... This traditional view is radically false. It takes into account only a single category of science and only a short period of time

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact