Propaganda Quotes · Page 17

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

— Anonymous

Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.

— Antony Beevor

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more…

— Eric Hoffer

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

— Rita Mae Brown

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace…

— Jon Voight

“For propaganda, of course. It’s all in your own book. How can we persuade others to be good, without evil we can…

— William T. Vollmann

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

— Norman Jewison

You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! The British journalist. But seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no…

— Humbert Wolfe

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim…

— Gerald R. Ford

Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording…

— Aldous Huxley

In India you don't find propaganda against Pakistan. During the war there was a little of it, naturally, but even during the…

— Indira Gandhi

“Russia's fundamental problem is not that it is a poor country struggling to modernize, but rather that it is a rich country…

— Fareed Zakaria

I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert…

— Frank Miller

We have been brainwashed by school, indoctrinated by industrial propaganda, and mesmerized by the popular media into believing that compliance is not…

— Seth

The white man has succeeded in subduing the world by forcing everybody to think his way…The white man's propaganda has made him…

— Marcus Garvey

The threat of gold redeemability imposes a constant check and limit on inflationary issues of government paper. If the government can remove…

— Murray Rothbard

For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices…

— Noam Chomsky

We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the…

— Ann Coulter

In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in…

— George Orwell

“If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? The…

— Bertrand Russell

“It is true that this general truth was hidden from many by certain definite assertions. I can only call them, in simple…

— G.K. Chesterton

The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer…

— Noam Chomsky

“Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented…

— Christopher Hitchens

The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system.

— Edward S. Herman

We are just athletes, a little piece in the world, but sport is pretty important and sport has always been used for…

— Iga Swiatek

The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

— Lord Chesterfield

The best goal for propaganda analysis is to develop such an understanding of the phenomenon that it will no longer be profitable…

— Randal Marlin

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands,…

— Michael Langford

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also…

— George Soros

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is…

— Jeff Grubb

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

— Aleksandar Hemon

If you look back at history, most important PR and propaganda was invented by the Communist Party.

— Dominic Cummings

For whatever reason, the mainstream media, for the most part, affixes itself to progressive or liberal propaganda.

— David Draiman

Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

— John Osborne

Government Education is an oxymoron. It is indoctrination. Lay still, little sheep, or The Wolf will get you.

— Rock Cowles

“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares…

— Plato

It's unfathomable that Twitter would be so brazenly complacent, allowing Hamas to use its platform as a terror command and communications center…

— Lee Zeldin

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.

— Christopher Lasch

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the…

— Vladimir Lenin