The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
Talk of democracy has little content when big business rules the life of the country through its control of the means of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity… — Fredrik Bajer Copy Share Image
It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
We should go to the masses and learn from them, synthesize their experience into better, articulated principles and methods, then do propaganda… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Having analyzed these traits, we can now advance a definition of propaganda - not an exhaustive definition, unique and exclusive of all… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The conservative side of our political spectrum has had an outsized voice over the last few years. I think especially since the… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
“In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize that. If you’ve taken an economics… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“One must face the fact that all the talk about His love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In the mid-1980s, however, the Estonian TV programmers came up with a clever idea: they asked Moscow for millions of rubles to… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
“Propaganda campaigns in general have been closely attuned to elite interests. The Red scare of 1919-20 have served well to abort the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“The party contested no elections, offered no candidates, sat on no commissions or official bodies. It simply made noise. Propaganda was its… — Peter Ross Range Copy Share Image
When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
As soon as one point alone is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion will not simply result in a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
You think that the CNN hosts can aggressively challenge government officials? I don't think so. It doesn't look that way at all.… — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
“The General Staff of an army in the field is so placed that within wide limits it can control what the public… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
People are tired of liberty. They have had a surfeit of it. Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin… Today's… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I remember 'The Shepherd's Dog' record being not necessarily a political record, but a reaction to socio-political situations in America. And it… — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter… — John Waters Copy Share Image
In relation to the political decontamination of our public life, the government will embark upon a systematic campaign to restore the nation's… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The power the fossil fuel industry exerts over Congress is polluting American democracy, the propaganda it emits through its front groups is… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I think defeating Fox - and more importantly, getting the rest of the media to understand they do not do legitimate news… — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
The most important thing [anarchists] can do is educate themselves, develop a propaganda machinery in the form of books and periodicals, a… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The propagandist must utilize all of the technical means at his disposal - the press, radio, TV, movies, posters, meetings, door-to-door canvassing...There… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
We never deal with propaganda. We never deal with politics. We never deal with newspaper headlines. We deal with the harsh realities… — John Kani Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
All propaganda must be confined to a few bare necessities and then must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas . .… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That's not necessarily true and hasn't been true… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Governments want to control information. To do this, they have elaborate systems for promoting themselves via propaganda departments and for ensuring confidentiality… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
It's very dangerous to pretend to be open-minded when you're the exact opposite. I think feminists are only making it worse by… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
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