Critical thinking Quote by Garry Kasparov

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth." (quoting…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“within an established totalitarian regime the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, much less to inform, but rather to humiliate. From this point…

— Anthony Daniels

“But that’s the trouble with propaganda. It constantly contradicts itself.”

— Masaji Ishikawa

The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it…

— Joseph Goebbels

The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;…

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Anonymous

“Propaganda is the evil twin of Fiction: while Fiction is the art of telling the truth without ever telling the truth, Propaganda is the…

— Criss Jami

“When causes are vague and goals uncertain... it becomes necessary to fall back on the bloated and honeyed words of propaganda.”

— Peter Englund

“There are two different evils about propaganda as now practised. On the one hand, its appeal is generally to irrational causes of belief rather…

— Bertrand Russell

The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.

— Andrew Breitbart

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

— George Orwell

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in,…

— George W. Bush