Propaganda Quotes

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.

The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.

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

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

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.

Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

[This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

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.

A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

It was not my aim to paint about the Negro in America in terms of propaganda. It is to depict the life of my people as I know it, passionately and dispassionately as Brueghel.

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

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.

We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

The mother tongue is propaganda.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.

The propaganda machine is endless. Religion, media and schools spew intentional lies and misinformation about proper human-to-animal relationships.

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.

What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

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

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

All news is lies and all propaganda is disguised as news.

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

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.

We actually need intelligent doubt and skepticism; they protect us against mistaken views and propaganda.

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd instantly become racists themselves.

As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.