Quotes from Susan Ronald

The link between foreign-exchange transactions, art, and armaments hadn't gone unnoticed by Hoover.

History matters. Facts matter. But above all else, context matters. Changing history and facts—canceling them as if they did not exist or changing them to suit some twenty-first-century weaponized truism is another form of propaganda and lie.

If we lose the power of informed debate, we become unable to avoid unfairness in society and to value differing viewpoints. Worse, we lose democracy. We must learn from our past mistakes and triumphs, not color them with a false paintbrush of bias or opinion or reinvent definitions for existing words calling the "truth" a "lie," or we shall never learn to become better people and leave a healthier, happier, safer planet behind us for our children and grandchildren.

The whole art [of propaganda] consists in doing this so skilfully that everyone will be convinced that the fact is real, the process necessary, the necessity correct, etc.," he had written in Mein Kampf. "The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to … the heart of the broad masses.

By the clever and continuous use of propaganda, a people can even be made to mistake heaven for hell, and vice versa. —Adolf Hitler