Nancy Regan

“while America, for its part, proved singularly unreceptive to the socialist-realist principle that undergirds them all: the principle that art can, or even must, have a message; and that such art-with-a-message, which will always be dismissed as propaganda, is in fact the only available corrective to the real and actual propaganda of entrenched official power.”
― Lion Feuchtwanger, The Oppermanns

“It struck me that almost any of the companies I’d heard about would be good fodder for an investigative story. But the thought of methodically gathering facts to disprove their ridiculous promises was exhausting. It reminded me of a maxim called the “bullshit asymmetry principle,” coined by an Italian programmer. He was describing the challenge of debunking falsehoods in the internet age. “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it,” the programmer, Alberto Brandolini, wrote in 2013.”
― Zeke Faux, Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

“The real problem of the masses was not the barbarism of the Nationalists but how to get along without the two extra groschen that the government had deducted from their income.”
― Lion Feuchtwanger, The Oppermanns

“This logical belief that the lie is the first principle of politics is certainly enormously interesting.”
― Lion Feuchtwanger, The Oppermanns