Albert Rutherford

inherent skill needed for critical thinking—asking questions. We need to be able to ask questions, sometimes very difficult ones that cause the personal evaluation of values

The ways that Hitler used propaganda to plant hateful ideas in the minds of his followers and indoctrinate them forever changed the connotation we have for the word propaganda and enforced again and again how important a free and independent press, freedom of speech, and critical thinking really are.

Repetition of short, memorable slogans was key in the marketing of his message. “The receptivity of great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. (…) all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans.”