Quotes about Propaganda

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. Votes: 7

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true. Votes: 5

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. Votes: 5

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. Votes: 4

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times. Votes: 4

[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way... Votes: 4

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy. Votes: 3

Propaganda rarely makes good art. Votes: 3

Propaganda begins when dialogue ends. Votes: 3

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony. Votes: 3

Propaganda is necessary only for the sake of money! Votes: 3

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. Votes: 3

Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything. Votes: 3

Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner. Votes: 3

Blacks Bought A Lot Of Propaganda On The Liberal Plantation. Votes: 3

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything. Votes: 3

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. Votes: 3

Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important. Votes: 3

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve . Votes: 3

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. Votes: 3

Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think. Votes: 3

Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred. Votes: 3

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them. Votes: 3

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent. Votes: 3

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will. Votes: 3

Propaganda analysis can contribute to world peace by exposing those techniques that lead to armed conflict by creating misapprehension of reality. Votes: 3

...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious. Votes: 3

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? Votes: 3

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. Votes: 3

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. Votes: 3

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda. Votes: 3

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast. Votes: 3

Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters. Votes: 3

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. Votes: 3

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by anybody, including dictators. Votes: 3

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail. Votes: 3

Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos. Votes: 3

(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth Votes: 3

When she faced the noise, she found the mayor's wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the robe sat an embroidered swastika. Propaganda even reached the bathroom. Votes: 3

... the approach of admitting our errors, besides being most true to a gospel of grace, is also most effective at expressing who we are. Propaganda turns people off; humbly admitting mistakes disarms. Votes: 3

Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information in order to create an impression different from that originally intended. Votes: 3

Often touching . . . Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips . . . In his translation, Andrew Bromfield deftly shifts his tone and tools as required, remaining true to Voinovich's Vonnegut-like playfulness and appreciation of the absurb. Votes: 3

The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed. Votes: 3

In the beginning, we create the enemy. Before the weapon comes the image. We think others to death and then invent the battle-axe or ballistic missiles with which to actually kill them. Propaganda precedes technology. Votes: 3

Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others. Votes: 3

Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological grounds to become a brake on the further dissemination of ideas. Votes: 3

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit. Votes: 3

Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less conviction and participation. The listeners critical powers decrease if the propaganda message is more rational and less violent. Votes: 3

Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good... the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution. Votes: 3

Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person. Votes: 3

Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments, and to integrate the individual into a technological world. Votes: 3

The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda. Votes: 2

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite. Votes: 2

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. Votes: 2

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. Votes: 2

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. Votes: 2

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship. Votes: 2

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth. Votes: 2

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief Votes: 2

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments. Votes: 2

To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth. Votes: 2

The evil of the Holocaust was realized through the exercise of a certain kind of power - coercive power. It was a power that sought to dominate and control. It was a power legitimated through law, buttressed by propaganda, augmented by terror, and affected through all the institutions of society. Votes: 2

Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature. Votes: 2

The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan. Votes: 2

When there is change, it must not alter the content of what propaganda is driving at, but in the end must always say the same thing. For instance, a slogan must be presented from different angles, but the end of all remarks must always and immutably be the slogan itself. Only in this way can the propaganda have a unified and complete effect. Votes: 2

'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda. Votes: 1

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism. Votes: 1

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment. Votes: 1

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population. Votes: 1

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. Votes: 1

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. Votes: 1

I think 'I Spy,' still when you look at it, speaks volumes in terms of propaganda for equality. It's just magnificent. Votes: 1

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. Votes: 1

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. Votes: 1

It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will. Votes: 1

I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism. Votes: 1

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. Votes: 1

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. Votes: 1

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. Votes: 1

Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda. Votes: 1

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind. Votes: 1

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them. Votes: 1

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines. Votes: 1

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants. Votes: 1

Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock. Votes: 1

When I go back to America, after a few days I am once again filled with this kind of angry alienation and disgust with this thing there that America has got - you have no idea how pervasive it is there. The public relations and propaganda put out by the corporate mono-culture there is so pervasive. Votes: 1

Unfortunately, propaganda works. Votes: 0

Health makes good propaganda. Votes: 0

All photography is propaganda. Votes: 0

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda. Votes: 0

All art is propaganda. Votes: 0

The mother tongue is propaganda. Votes: 0

The truth is the best propaganda. Votes: 0

Our silence is our real propaganda. Votes: 0

Art is more engaging that propaganda. Votes: 0

all truly great art is propaganda ... Votes: 0

Education is either self-discovery or propaganda. Votes: 0

The best propaganda omits rather than invents Votes: 0

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. Votes: 0

Art functioning as propaganda is not art. Votes: 0

All great art and literature is propaganda. Votes: 0

History is the propaganda of the victors. Votes: 0

We have made the Reich by propaganda Votes: 0

Russia today is nothing but a propaganda arm. Votes: 0

Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda. Votes: 0

No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. Votes: 0

Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda. Votes: 0

Content alone is propaganda; form alone is wallpaper. Votes: 0

There's a fine line between information and propaganda. Votes: 0

Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda. Votes: 0

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda. Votes: 0

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda. Votes: 0

Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things. Votes: 0

That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda. Votes: 0

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. Votes: 0

So much of the news was invented for propaganda. Votes: 0

Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be.... Votes: 0

There is no difference between Western media and Nazi propaganda. Votes: 0

I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda. Votes: 0

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth. Votes: 0

In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda. Votes: 0

All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another. Votes: 0

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All news is lies and all propaganda is disguised as news. Votes: 0

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content. Votes: 0

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda. Votes: 0

Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence. Votes: 0

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked. Votes: 0

Communication is always " propaganda ." The emitter always wants "to get something across. Votes: 0

With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you? Votes: 0

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. Votes: 0

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think. Votes: 0

The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda. Votes: 0

The Nazis learned their propaganda from the progressive movement in the United States. Votes: 0

All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art. Votes: 0

We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective. Votes: 0

Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid. Votes: 0

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered. Votes: 0

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose. Votes: 0

All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda. Votes: 0

Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality. Votes: 0

Advocating through art is known as propaganda. You should look up the name Goebbels. Votes: 0

Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle. Votes: 0

The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes. Votes: 0

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive Votes: 0

We actually need intelligent doubt and skepticism; they protect us against mistaken views and propaganda. Votes: 0

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support? Votes: 0

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods. Votes: 0

Every state's emblematic propaganda is worshiped by the consumer-citizen as a super-logo, a brand Juggernaut. Votes: 0

Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don't even know it. Votes: 0

The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action. Votes: 0

Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States. Votes: 0

It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success. Votes: 0

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda. Votes: 0

Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian. Votes: 0

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images. Votes: 0

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't. Votes: 0

The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie. Votes: 0

Could you do a liberal propaganda tool that would bore the bejesus out of people? No. Votes: 0

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression. Votes: 0

Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano. Votes: 0

The most disgusting human trait is bias, because it typically leads to propaganda, hate and violence. Votes: 0

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented. Votes: 0

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda. Votes: 0

China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated. Votes: 0

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda"¦ Votes: 0

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art. Votes: 0

When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated. Votes: 0

The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda Votes: 0

Compared with the BBC's studied neutrality, Fox comes across as a kind of Gong Show of propaganda. Votes: 0

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it. Votes: 0

You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is. Votes: 0

The most disgusting human trait is bias because it ends of leading to propaganda, hate and violence. Votes: 0

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types. Votes: 0

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. Votes: 0

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. Votes: 0

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy. Votes: 0

When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them Votes: 0

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic. Votes: 0

Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began. Votes: 0

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal. Votes: 0

At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk. Votes: 0

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda. Votes: 0

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned. Votes: 0

In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force. Votes: 0

Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc. Votes: 0

Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions. Votes: 0

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident. Votes: 0

Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda. Votes: 0

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief. Votes: 0

Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world. Votes: 0

All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda. Votes: 0

Even with the help of anti-Russian propaganda in the mass media, Germany has not succeeded in damaging this sympathy. Votes: 0

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda. Votes: 0

You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'. Votes: 0

The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything. Votes: 0

Terrorists, in ungoverned spaces, disseminate poisonous propaganda and training materials to attract troubled souls around the world to their cause. Votes: 0

Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans. Votes: 0

(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days. Votes: 0

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. Votes: 0

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. Votes: 0

The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda. Votes: 0

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world. Votes: 0

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Votes: 0

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history. Votes: 0

The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system. Votes: 0

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. Votes: 0

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart. Votes: 0

To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda. Votes: 0

As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy. Votes: 0

As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy. Votes: 0

My view is FOX News is a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party and I don't comment on FOX News. Votes: 0

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so. Votes: 0

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war. Votes: 0

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment. Votes: 0

For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade. Votes: 0

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. Votes: 0

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. Votes: 0

We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice. Votes: 0

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings. Votes: 0

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda. Votes: 0

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis. Votes: 0

Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy. Votes: 0

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion. Votes: 0

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad. Votes: 0

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. Votes: 0

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. Votes: 0

They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function. Votes: 0

In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda. Votes: 0

A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda. Votes: 0

There used to be a lot more politics in the Olympics, when the Soviet Bloc committed a lot of resources for propaganda purposes. Votes: 0

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. Votes: 0

A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong. Votes: 0

The moment philosophy supposes it can find a final and comprehensive solution, it ceases to be inquiry and becomes either apologetics or propaganda. Votes: 0

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to. Votes: 0

when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once. Votes: 0

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another? Votes: 0

I don't know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and environmental work. I just want to do good. Votes: 0

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be. Votes: 0

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda. Votes: 0

Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter. Votes: 0

Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial. Votes: 0

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock? Votes: 0

In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War. Votes: 0

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda. Votes: 0

Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit [from] unions. Votes: 0

Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda. Votes: 0

Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth. Votes: 0

The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy. Votes: 0

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes. Votes: 0

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably. Votes: 0

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda. Votes: 0

It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda. Votes: 0

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies. Votes: 0

Given all of the anti-Muslim propaganda that's being disseminated by The American Nazi media, you have to be careful. It can stress you out. Votes: 0

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear. Votes: 0

It's a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. Votes: 0

It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad. Votes: 0

What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred. Votes: 0

Concision is a technique of propaganda. It ensures you cannot do anything except repeat clichés, the standard doctrine, or sound like a lunatic. Votes: 0

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy. Votes: 0

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach. Votes: 0

During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us. Votes: 0

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism. Votes: 0

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda. Votes: 0

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health. Votes: 0

Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it. Votes: 0

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. Votes: 0

Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work. Votes: 0

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda. Votes: 0

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it. Votes: 0

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries. Votes: 0

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas. Votes: 0

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me. Votes: 0

It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad masses of its adherents. Votes: 0

Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd instantly become racists themselves. Votes: 0

In sum, the purpose is to contest the popular view, because popular opinions are so frequently found to be untimely, misled (by propaganda), or plainly wrong. Votes: 0

Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda. Votes: 0

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded. Votes: 0

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society. Votes: 0

Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves. Votes: 0

Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully by King George VI to inspire the British people to fight invasion. Votes: 0

More than anyone else, Adolf Hitler completely understood the union between government propaganda and between - and advertising, that they were in some ways the same thing. Votes: 0

As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid. Votes: 0

I would say we must win the information war against ISIS. Every war we have ever been involved in has had a propaganda informational aspect to it. Votes: 0

In my opinion turkey is the most over-rated critter for eating purposes in kingdom come but the most striking example we have of the power of propaganda. Votes: 0

A safe rule where Jewish propaganda is concerned is to multiply or divide their figures by ten, at least, before accepting them as the basis for discussion. Votes: 0

We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda. Votes: 0

I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears. Votes: 0

We have been brainwashed by school, indoctrinated by industrial propaganda, and mesmerized by the popular media into believing that compliance is not only safe but right and necessary. Votes: 0

Because our ladies mostly attend Kalatshepams, (Religious discourses) they have fallen prey to the superstitions, blind beliefs, and immorality by the false and fictituous propaganda of the Brahmins Votes: 0

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One. Votes: 0

In Northern Estonia, the Soviet authorities didn't have a recipe on how to fight against the popularity of Finnish TV. Audiences didn't want to watch hardcore Soviet propaganda. Votes: 0

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth. Votes: 0

Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace. Votes: 0

To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement. Votes: 0

It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda. Votes: 0

The West can only try to destroy Russia and China internally, through horrendous sets of tricks, propaganda and toxic lies. But now even such a scenario is unlikely. Votes: 0

The best goal for propaganda analysis is to develop such an understanding of the phenomenon that it will no longer be profitable for people to engage in it. Votes: 0

The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin. Votes: 0

The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back. Votes: 0

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education. Votes: 0

Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse to carry out upon women. Votes: 0

Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as wildly individualistic and unbearably bright. Votes: 0

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies. Votes: 0

[This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with... Votes: 0

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality. Votes: 0

[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda. Votes: 0

Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable. Votes: 0

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself. Votes: 0

We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy, isolation, passivity, helplessness and separation. Votes: 0

this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also. Votes: 0

The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective. Votes: 0

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda. Votes: 0

It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race. Votes: 0

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937) Votes: 0

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. Votes: 0

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses. Votes: 0

... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement. Votes: 0

The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy. Votes: 0

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing. Votes: 0

The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality. Votes: 0

And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic. Votes: 0

And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic. Votes: 0

Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic. Votes: 0

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event. Votes: 0

All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for. Votes: 0

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it. Votes: 0

The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it. Votes: 0

the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda. Votes: 0

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose. Votes: 0

I believe that competition in the future will not be only an advertising competition between individual products or between big associations, but that it will in addition be a competition of propaganda. Votes: 0

In some songs, like propaganda songs-and don't get me wrong, I love some propaganda songs. They're some of my favorite songs in the world. It's just that I don't enjoy writing it. Votes: 0

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. Votes: 0

In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy. Votes: 0

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. Votes: 0

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. Votes: 0

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem. Votes: 0

Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda. Votes: 0

What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they're not compatible. Votes: 0

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought. Votes: 0

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought. Votes: 0

It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century. Votes: 0

There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false propaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda. Votes: 0

Today I want to dispel this myth, because it is absolutely not true .[ that ARV's work ] The pharmaceutical industry and those who have a vested interest in the drug industry fuels this propaganda. Votes: 0

Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government. Votes: 0

ISIS is winning the propaganda war. They are recruiting people, including Americans, to join them, with the promise that they are joining this great apocalyptic movement that is going to defeat the West. Votes: 0

The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help produce a pre-election propaganda film about the Osama bin Laden raid. Votes: 0

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole. Votes: 0

You have to love that government, but hate the government that might work in your interest and that you could control. That's an interesting propaganda task, but it's been carried out very well. Votes: 0

The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children Votes: 0

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid. Votes: 0

There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between a heap of raw materials and a battleship. Votes: 0

I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself. Votes: 0

The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference. Votes: 0

I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know. Votes: 0

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography. Votes: 0

I found that I loved producing that kind of propaganda and I loved the power that a few students with a Macintosh computer could wield. I was hooked on communications at that point. Votes: 0

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. Votes: 0

U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with minimal effect on civilians. Technical documents give a different picture. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan in the US was not a particularly popular president, but after his death sectors of wealth and power created a huge propaganda campaign that converted this disgraceful figure into a semi-divinity. Votes: 0

Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of production, exchange, the press and other means of publicity, propaganda and communication. Votes: 0

It's only when journalists understand the role they play in this propaganda, it's only when they realize they can't be both independent, honest journalists and agents of power, that things will begin to change. Votes: 0

Don't they feed you at Navarre house?""They throw out some gruel between the indoctrination sessions and propaganda films. Then we're off marching around the grounds and the recitation of sonnets to Celina's loveliness." Votes: 0

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours. Votes: 0

When we consider propaganda as the attempt to shape the thoughts and feelings of others, in ways conforming to the aims of the communicator, we find a vast array of different examples throughout history. Votes: 0

What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests? Votes: 0

It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel. Votes: 0

You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists sites, and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters, because they want to create a war between us. Votes: 0

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success. Votes: 0

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it. Votes: 0

This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it. Votes: 0

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated. Votes: 0

The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda. Votes: 0

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival. Votes: 0

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable. Votes: 0

A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one. Votes: 0

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Votes: 0

My understanding is that Exxon, in particular, did fund a variety of small think tanks to generate what amounts to propaganda against understanding of what climate change was doing, the human role in causing it. Votes: 0

If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside. Votes: 0

Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists. Votes: 0

I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press. Votes: 0

Mr. Bush, I don't recognize the world you paint. I find your speech a form of sheer propaganda, having almost no relationship to reality. ...You can't 'stay the course' because you don't have a course. Votes: 0

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. Votes: 0