 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Modern propagandists have learnt from advertisers, who led the way in the technique of producing irrational belief. Education should be designed to counteract the natural credulity and the natural incredulity of the uneducated : the habit of believing an emphatic statement without reasons, and of disbelieving an unemphatic statement even when accompanied by the best of reasons..
Source: Bertrand Russell : Power, a new social analysis, 1938
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