Certain Quote by George Orwell

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.

— Ludwig Quidde

“The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow…

— George Orwell

“The controversy over freedom of speech and of the press is at bottom a controversy of the desirability, or otherwise, of telling lies. What…

— George Orwell

The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point…

— Jacques Ellul

“Screens provoke action instead of persuasion. Propaganda is less effective in a world of screens, because while misinformation travels as fast as electrons, corrections…

— Kevin Kelly

The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are…

— Richard Dawkins

The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually…

— Crispin Glover

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.

— John Henrik Clarke

If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ... But somewhere…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it.…

— George Orwell

Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes…

— George Orwell