The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest. — Dionne Bromfield Copy Share Image
I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings. — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
“By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched… — Hourly History Copy Share Image
This is what the difference is between Hong Kong and Chinese cinema - Chinese cinema was made for their own communities. It… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
The task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses toward certain facts,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Screens provoke action instead of persuasion. Propaganda is less effective in a world of screens, because while misinformation travels as fast as… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a… — Edwin Way Teale Copy Share Image
One of the hopeful things that I've discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
[T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Extremism stifles true progression in all fields of human advancement; it is a detriment to everything but war, tribalism and the personal… — Daniel S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows the story of the traveler in Naples who saw twelve beggars lying in the sun (it was before the days… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We must each of us do our home work. 'My people are destroyed,' said Hosea, 'for lack of knowledge.' We must be… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The other pioneer of political public relations was Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, who sharpened his skills writing prowar propaganda… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and environmental work. I just want to do… — Chen Guangbiao Copy Share Image
The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'. — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“Propaganda (things to be propagated) is inescapable. It is not *whether* certain values will be propagated, but rather, *which* values will be… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
The rude awakening I got was that this country can determine the fate of anyone by using propaganda on a public that… — Bushwick Bill Copy Share Image
In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy. — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn't come to me through the filter of the West and its propaganda. — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated. — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image