Propaganda Quotes

Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

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.

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.

Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.

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.

It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.

[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them

Propaganda begins when dialogue ends.

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.

Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

I operate under the assumption that the mass media will never be accurate. ... It operates with the objective to simplify and exaggerate, which is exactly what Walt Disney told his cartoonists.

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Propaganda rarely makes good art.

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way.

It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad masses of its adherents.

A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.

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.

There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between a heap of raw materials and a battleship.

In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda.

You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.

In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

The continual linking of the notions of terrorist and terrorism with Muslims and the Middle East is, essentially, an act of propaganda that cannot help but promote "Islamophobia."

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.

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.

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.

We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.

Health makes good propaganda.

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.

Anti-union propaganda has been considerably more successful here [ in the U.S.] than in Europe, even among working people who would benefit [from] unions.

Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.

Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across."

The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.