Peter Dale Scott quotes

“Disinformation, in order to be effective, must be 90% accurate.”
-- Peter Dale Scott

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“At the first meeting of the newly constituted Warren Commission, [former CIA Director] Allen Dulles handed out copies of a book to help define the ideological parameters he proposed for the Commission's forthcoming work. American assassinations were different from European ones, he told the Commission. European assassinations were the work of conspiracies, whereas American assassins acted alone.”
-- Peter Dale Scott

Source : "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK". Book by Peter Dale Scott, June 22, 1996.

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“The media do not set their own investigative agendas independently, but operate as part ... of the political establishment.”
-- Peter Dale Scott

Source : Peter Dale Scott, Jonathan Marshall (1998). “Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated Edition”, p.174, Univ of California Press

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“Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice.”
-- Peter Dale Scott

Source : Peter Dale Scott (2007). “The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America”, p.13, Univ of California Press

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“I guess that when you invade a nation of warlords, you end up having to deal with warlords.”
-- Peter Dale Scott

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“If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

“That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)”

“When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).”

Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”

“In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.”

“In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.”

Source : Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 1969.

“The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear.”

“With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.”

“You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction”

Source : "Gurley and Om" by Fred Wilson, www.businessinsider.com. December 13, 2012.

“When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.”

“All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.”