Quotes of Propaganda - somelinesforyou

“ Their propaganda is often unintentionally hilarious and I couldn't find an existing searchable database of the KCNA on the Web. Thus, NK News was born. ”

- Geoff Davis

“ 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. ”

- Marshall McLuhan

“ 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. ”

- Gerald R. Ford

“ Propaganda replaces moral philosophy. ”

- Hans J. Morgenthau

“ Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true. ”

- Hubert H. Humphrey

“ 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

“ We have made the Reich by propaganda. ”

- Paul Joseph Goebbels

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

- Bertrand Russell

“ Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. ”

- Noam Chomsky

“ Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent. ”

- Adolf Hitler

“ The message is the kind of boastful propaganda we've heard before, but I wouldn't dismiss it as bluster. ”

- Paul Wilkinson

“ Propping Up of Racist Propaganda. ”

- Christopher Columbus

“ Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ 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. ”

- Keith Haring

“ Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ 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

“ Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see Paradise as Hell; and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as Paradise. ”

- Adolf Hitler

“ Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ”

- Frances Cornford

“ A propagandist is a specialist in selling attitudes and opinions. ”

- Hans Speier

“ 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

“ Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. ”

- James B. Conant

“ The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ 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. ”

- Adolf Hitler

“ Textbooks are Soviet propaganda. ”

- Jerry Falwell

“ 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

“ The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government. ”

- Phyllis Schlafly

“ In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes… ”

- Gandhi

“ All propaganda or popularization involves a puting 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. ”

- Terry Eagleton

“ The right name is an advertisement in itself. ”

- Claude Hopkins

“ Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing. ”

- Marshall McLuhan
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