The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Ask a fellow if he favors organized prayer in the public schools. If he says 'No' he's a liberal. If he says… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would perhaps come in the upheaval… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
China's propaganda approach with the West is different than the one used by the Soviet Union, which used Western belligerence to maintain… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
“Only the Jew knew that by an able and persistent use of propaganda heaven itself can be presented to the people as… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's… — Andrey Illarionov Copy Share Image
Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through the press, radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me,… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“I figure... ...that the people are now more deeply conscious than ever before in history of the existence and functioning principles of… — Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
If we can effectively kill the national pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country. Therefore, there… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda.… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
The evil of the Holocaust was realized through the exercise of a certain kind of power - coercive power. It was a… — Mary Jo Leddy Copy Share Image
A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on… — Fatou Bensouda Copy Share Image
(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
Can-do Americans courageously go about their duty in Iraq - mostly unafraid that a culture of 2,000 years, the reality of geography,… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda. I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Young women at our elite colleges are among the safest, most privileged and most empowered of any group on the planet. Yet,… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but merely the hackneyed dotted line they have chosen… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People come home from work. They want to pop a beer. They want to find out who won a game. And next… — Clay Travis Copy Share Image
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to… — Alan Bullock Copy Share Image