Propaganda Quotes

Art functioning as propaganda is not art.

— Leonard Nimoy

Health makes good propaganda.

— Naomi Wolf

Propaganda rarely makes good art.

— Susan Sutherland Isaacs

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

— Larry Norman

All photography is propaganda.

— Martin Parr

I'm not really sure what gay propaganda is.

— Chris Pine

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

— Hans Morgenthau

Propaganda begins when dialogue ends.

— Jacques Ellul

There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

— Jenny Holzer

“The desire to demonize others is based on the ontological uncertainties.”

— Zygmunt Bauman

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

— Charles de Gaulle

Blacks Bought A Lot Of Propaganda On The Liberal Plantation.

— Pat Buchanan

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

— Evgeny Morozov

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

— Alan Alda

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

— H. L. Mencken

Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.

— Richard S. Salant

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

— Jacques Ellul

“The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.”

— Thomas Sowell

There's a turd in the punch bowl is all I gotta say/Here you go Planet Earth get your cup and take a…

— C-DASH

“The Viet Cong were not the idealistic warriors of American antiwar propaganda; they were vicious. They relied on terror.”

— Mark Bowden

To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols…

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Ishmael Reed

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

— Criss Jami

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

— David Shuster

After a fashion, they did, mingling the sale of perfumes with anti-Nazi propaganda. In the event, my tirelessly publicised determination to wrest…

— Coco Chanel

It's quite scary when academics start dictating to artists that they should be politically correct or follow certain rules of behavior -…

— Pieter Hugo

As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for…

— Neil MacGregor

It is propaganda that people, who had lived a full life of heterosexuality, were married and had children, were denying their real…

— Ali Sina

What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want…

— David Hare

Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information…

— James A.C. Brown

Facebook is a known behemoth corporate monopoly. It has exposed at least 87 million people's data, enabled foreign propaganda and perpetuated discrimination.…

— Zephyr Teachout

Every time a candidate came up from the base, that is with popular support, the Republican establishment went into high gear to…

— Noam Chomsky

Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or…

— Andre Vltchek

“The new fashions sold in department stores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see. They’d been displaced by immigrant…

— Mary Doria Russell

“Among the many symbols used to frighten and manipulate the populace of the democratic states, few have been more important than "terror"…

— Noam Chomsky

You see, one strand...of anarchism believed that you needed to use essentially homeopathic doses of terror by assassinating people, et cetera, the…

— Vijay Prashad

“{President] Kayibanda's government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the media it controlled to…

— John Rucyahana

When the Jew says "mankind" he is talking about himself. It is written in the Talmud, that only Jews were human beings,…

— Julius Streicher

Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy,…

— Camille Paglia

Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by…

— Mark Crispin Miller