Propaganda Quote by Mark Bowden

So much of the history of painting is the propaganda of self-aggrandizement.

— Kehinde Wiley

The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely susceptible to…

— Jacques Ellul

“Hanoi’s leaders were virtuoso songbirds of propaganda. They lived in a bubble. There were no voices of dissent in their society to check or…

— Mark Bowden

“When Jim was growing up, good colleges were challenging to get into, but it wasn't like it is today, when being a solid, diligent…

— Kate Fagan

“My fingers combed through my dark hair, short and straight, landing in choppy, uneven ends nearly level with my chin. The color reminded me…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for…

— Willa Cather

The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans), prefer good…

— Jeremy Grantham

“Wishful thinking about the peaceful tolerance of Islam cannot interpret away this reality: hands are still cut off, women still stoned and enslaved, just…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Hilda observed that science always loses its way when guided by ideology or wishful thinking.”

— David Lagercrantz

There's nothing harder to stop than somebody who wants to believe a miracle.

— Leslie Ford

“Anyway, I thought, it's wishful thinking, all this talk of ghosts. If the dead wandered among us, their spirits still present on this earth,…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

— Frank Herbert