Propaganda Quotes · Page 12

“By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched…

— Hourly History

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

— Alistair Cooke

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

The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at…

— Jacques Ellul

Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd…

— Jim Goad

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

— Emma Goldman

The Million Man March, in one day, helped to defeat all of the evil propaganda spread about Black men throughout the world.

— Louis Farrakhan

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

— Hubert H. Humphrey

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the…

— Bill Moyers

My personal philosophy is, talk about whatever you want on a show, but it better be good. And especially if it's something…

— Cameron Esposito

If you give a man the correct information for seven years, he may believe the incorrect information on the first day of…

— PSY

Wrestling isn't real. The falls hurt, sometimes you get punches in the face, but it's not real. It's propaganda. Propaganda makes you…

— Enzo Amore

Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always…

— George Bernard Shaw

That it is not the people who really feel that way, but it is people who have the most money to fire…

— Margaret Cho

I want to make sure those who view despicable terrorist content online, including jihadi websites, far-right propaganda, and bomb-making instructions, face the…

— Amber Rudd

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

“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

Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,…

— Ayn Rand

“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

“Usually I spare myself from the news, because if it’s not propaganda, then it’s one threat or another exaggerated to the point…

— Dean Koontz

“By hiding behind the overarching term “white privilege,” the small percentage of privileged whites have ensured the following: first, they remain disguised…

— Louis Yako

Poetry is difficult, I mean interesting poetry, not confessional babble or emotive propaganda. Reading a new poet is discovering an entire world,…

— Simon Critchley

Mexico just needs more journalists, and especially more good places to publish and exhibit. There are all kinds of censorship practiced in…

— Francisco Goldman

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for…

— Walter Lippmann

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

— Jeannette Rankin

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

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

— Wole Soyinka

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

— Werner Herzog

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

— Herbert M. Shelton

“There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by…

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Harry Browne

“The celestial hypothesis is sheer propaganda formulated by the haves to delude the havenots.”

— John Fante

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

— Kate Adie

The rude awakening I got was that this country can determine the fate of anyone by using propaganda on a public that…

— Bushwick Bill

Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda.

— Olga Tokarczuk

“Propaganda (things to be propagated) is inescapable. It is not *whether* certain values will be propagated, but rather, *which* values will be…

— Douglas Wilson

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

— Graham Hancock

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched…

— Adolf Hitler

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