Propaganda Quotes
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Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.(Quote by - Ludwig Quidde)
The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times. (Quote by - Marshall Mcluhan)
Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.(Quote by - Jack Steinberger )
Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.(Quote by - Albert Speer)
I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.(Quote by - Jon Voight)
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 a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others. (Quote by - Elizabeth Drew)
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.(Quote by - Douglas MacArthur)
We have made the Reich by propaganda. (Quote by - Paul Joseph Goebbels)
It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.(Quote by - Emily Murphy)
For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.(Quote by - John Amery)
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.(Quote by - Douglas MacArthur)
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true. (Quote by - Hubert H. Humphrey)
A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.(Quote by - Leon Jouhaux)
It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.(Quote by - Godfrey Reggio)
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.(Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
A propagandist is a specialist in selling attitudes and opinions. (Quote by - Hans Speier)
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.(Quote by - John Grierson)
A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.(Quote by - Gerald R. Ford)
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 the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.(Quote by - Noam Chomsky)
It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.(Quote by - Kim Il Sung)
It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.(Quote by - Jacques Ellul)
Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.(Quote by - Fredrik Bajer )
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.(Quote by - David Herbert Lawrence)
Art is more engaging that propaganda.(Quote by - Larry Norman)
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.(Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.(Quote by - Christian Lous Lange)
I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.(Quote by - Curtis Lemay)
Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.(Quote by - Norman Jewison)
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.(Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.(Quote by - Brad Holland)
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that. (Quote by - Terry Eagleton)
Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.(Quote by - Mark Poster)
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.(Quote by - Paul Robeson)
Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.(Quote by - Gertrude Stein)
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.(Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.(Quote by - Nat King Cole)
And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.(Quote by - Robert Welch)
Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.(Quote by - Jerry Falwell)
That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.(Quote by - Lindsey Buckingham)
If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.(Quote by - Brit Hume)
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.(Quote by - Noam Chomsky)
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.(Quote by - John Boyd Orr)
Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. (Quote by - James B. Conant)
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.(Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.(Quote by - Keith Haring)
For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.(Quote by - Ernst Zundel)
I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.(Quote by - Ben Shahn)
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.(Quote by - Christopher Lasch)
Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.(Quote by - Vladimir Lenin)
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.(Quote by - Charles E. Wilson)
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. (Quote by - Jean Anouilh)
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. (Quote by - Frances Cornford)
I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.(Quote by - Geoffrey Fisher)
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.(Quote by - Christopher Lasch)
Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking. (Quote by - William Mather Lewis)
In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.(Quote by - Yakov Smirnoff)
I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.(Quote by - Steve Irwin)
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.(Quote by - Douglas MacArthur)
Propaganda replaces moral philosophy. (Quote by - Hans J. Morgenthau)
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.(Quote by - Harold Pinter)
I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.(Quote by - Edward Bond)
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers.(Quote by - Leon Jouhaux)
