"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."
— Eric Hoffer

January 1, 1970

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From The Passionate State of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955), p. 260 ; as cited in The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, ed. Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press (1993), p. 741