Propaganda Quotes

473 Propaganda quotes by 311 unique authors

this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched… — Kofi Annan
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth. — John F. Kennedy
When she faced the noise, she found the mayor’s wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the robe sat an… — Markus Zusak
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda. — Upton Sinclair
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern… — Bertrand Russell
Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses… — Bertrand Russell
As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being… — Madeleine L'Engle
All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda. — Alan Sillitoe
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions. — Cory Doctorow
The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda — Joe Bageant
(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the… — Ernest Hemingway
That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for.… — Noam Chomsky
The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook. — George Seldes
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated. — Herbert M. Shelton
The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on… — George Orwell
In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of… — George Orwell
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to… — H. L. Mencken
The media—stenographers to power. — Amy Goodman
The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil… — Jeff Cooper
I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis… — John Waters
History is the propaganda of the victors. — Louis de Bernieres
The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you… — Joss Whedon
Health makes good propaganda. — Naomi Wolf

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