George W. Bush:
“See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” [1]
Adolf Hitler:
“Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of a crowd.” [2]
C. C. Zain:
“Their chief method of getting victims is through having ideas widely accepted that are untrue and which place people in their power. To get these ideas thus widely accepted, they have recourse to thought-dissemination, to the suggestive power of repetition, to insinuations, to platitudes, and to inversions.
Inversion is a method of presenting some idea in a manner that the lie is deeply and inconspicuously concealed amid much truth, the more real the facts, and the more widely they are recognized as facts, the better they afford cover for some cunning lie.”
"One keeps coming around - and around - this phenomenon of the vast means of communication and its - repetitive nature. Again, one man, Soren Kierkegaard, saw the perverse possibilities in this. In his extraordinary treatise On Repetition, he was the first to suggest that we are moving into a time when falsehood, repeated over and over, would acquire a dynamic genius of its own, [3]that the mere mechanics of repetition would create intellectual and emotional structures." [4]
[1] Quoted in Eliot Weinberger, What I heard about Iraq, London Review of Books, Vol. 28, Number 1, 5th January 2006, p. 9.
[2] Adolf Hitler, Mein Campf, p. 163. In Alan Bullock, Hitler. A Study in Tyranny.
[3] C.C. Zain, The Sacred Tarot, The Church of Light, Los Angeles, various editions.
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