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No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." --Hannah Arendt
The Yalta agreements to which President Truman referred not only delineated the zonal boundaries within Germany, but specified that the country would be governed jointly by the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France acting through a quadripartite Allied Control Council (ACC).
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
From a Ted Koppel interview in Frontline: News War:
To the extent that we're now judging journalism by the same standards that we apply to entertainment — in other words, give the public what it wants, not necessarily what it ought to hear, what it ought to see, what it needs, but what it wants — that may prove to be one of the greatest tragedie... See more
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past
— George Orwell, 1984