Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

  • -- Eric Hoffer 埃里克·霍弗

宣传不会欺骗人们;这只会帮助他们欺骗自己。

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The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

和平宣传的方法旨在通过辩论建立和平学说,并在一般情况下创造一种有利于和平的感觉,但这些方法似乎没有达到人类行动的源泉,也没有处理他们试图改变的行为的原因。

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

对有些人来说,孤独不是逃避他人,而是逃避自己。因为他们在别人的眼中只看到自己的影子。

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

所有的战争宣传,所有的尖叫、谎言和仇恨,无一例外地来自那些没有参战的人。

People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.

人们醉心于工作,所以他们看不到自己的真实状态。

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

不诚实是如此贪婪,如果可能的话,它会欺骗上帝自己。

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

欺骗欺骗人的人是双倍的快乐。