“It’s as if we have returned to the era of Protagoras and the sophists, the era when the art of persuasion – for which slogans, commercials, public propaganda meetings, newspapers, cinema, radio are the modern equivalent – took the place of thought, determined the fate of cities and accomplished coups.”

“It’s as if we have returned to the era of Protagoras and the sophists, the era when the art of persuasion – for which slogans, commercials, public propaganda meetings, newspapers, cinema, radio are the modern equivalent – took the place of thought, determined the fate of cities and accomplished coups.”

— Simone Weil