Propaganda Quotes
473 quotes by 323 authors
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
— Hannah Arendt
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
— Saul Bellow
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
— Rita Mae Brown
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It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
— Harry Browne
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
— Samuel Butler
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Men willingly believe what they wish.
— Julius Caesar
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that…
— Noam Chomsky
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There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
— Noam Chomsky
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
— Noam Chomsky
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
— Winston Churchill
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Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
— Jean Anouilh
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If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the…
— C.S. Lewis
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There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda…
— Michael Parenti
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...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.
— Robert Higgs
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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood…
— Winston Churchill
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Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.
— Erich Fromm
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Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's…
— Elizabeth Drew
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For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.
— Noam Chomsky
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