Propaganda Quotes
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that.That's what's insane about it.-John Lennon
We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. George Orwell
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell
They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening . George Orwell
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. George Orwell
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. -- Howard Zinn, historian and author
Understand that all battles are waged on an unconscious level before they are begun on the conscious one, and this battle is no different. The power structure wishes us to believe that the only options available are those which they present to us, we know this is simply not true, and therefore we must redefine the terrain of this conflict, and clearly, it is a conflict of worldviews and agendas. - Teresa Stover
See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. George W. Bush - 43rd US President
Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. -H.L. Mencken
The propaganda system allows the U.S. Leadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers. Edward S. Herman, political economist and author
When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. Dresden James.
When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous. --Thomas Jefferson
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. - William Mather Lewis
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. Dresden James.
If the test of patriotism comes only by reflexively falling into lockstep behind the leader whenever the flag is waved, then what we have is a formula for dictatorship, - not democracy... But the American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this or any other country. - Michael Parenti
The point of public relations slogans like Support our troops is that they don't mean anything... 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. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about.: Noam Chomsky
We have made the Reich by propaganda Joseph Paul Goebbels - German Politician, 1897-1945 America, too, is made by media propaganda.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. Noam Chomsky - American Linguist and Activist. b.1928
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell and the American media and its propaganda machinery are expert in this field.
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments. Michael Parenti
Special forces is our propaganda term for our own brand of terrorists. Emet Tsedeq
The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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. - Elizabeth Drew
Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favourable for the opponent. - Adolph Hitler
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. - Rita Mae Brown
Propaganda, becomes at last more credible to its disseminators than to its targets. (The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power, 1981) - Garry Wills
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's. - Harry S. Truman
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. - Jean Anouilh Ardele
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. - Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.-Henry A. Wallace
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.-Jacques Ellul
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.-Harry S. Truman
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.-Elihu Root
The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.-Heywood Broun
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.-John Grierson
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.-Jacques Ellul
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.-Christopher Lasch
The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.-Karl Radek
The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.-Robert Capa
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 a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way.-Crispin Glover
The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.-Strom Thurmond
There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.-Jim Fowler
These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.-Godfrey Reggio
They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.-Johann Most
This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.-Paul Watzlawick
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.-Adolf Hitler
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.-Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.-Arthur Keith
We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption.-George Creel
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.-Curtis Lemay
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.-Ben Shahn
I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.-Jon Voight
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.-Nat King Cole
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.-Brit Hume
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.-Paul Robeson
In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use.-Sara Murray Jordan
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.-Yakov Smirnoff
Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?-Sean Hannity
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.-Emily Murphy
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.-Kim Il Sung
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.-Douglas MacArthur
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.-John Boyd Orr
It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.-Jacques Ellul
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.-Godfrey Reggio
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.-Harold Pinter
Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.-Norman Jewison
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.-David Herbert Lawrence
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.-Rita Mae Brown
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.-Fredrik Bajer