Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
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The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.
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Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.
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The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.
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It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.
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Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
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In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
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For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.
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Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
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The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.
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