Propaganda Quotes

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

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

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

Unfortunately, propaganda works.

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.

The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.

History is fables agreed upon.

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.

There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

In my opinion turkey is the most over-rated critter for eating purposes in kingdom come but the most striking example we have of the power of propaganda.

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.

We have been brainwashed by school, indoctrinated by industrial propaganda, and mesmerized by the popular media into believing that compliance is not only safe but right and necessary.

Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.

Photography is a strong tool, a propaganda device, and a weapon for the defense of the environment...and therefore for the fostering of a healthy human race and even very likely for its survival.

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.

A safe rule where Jewish propaganda is concerned is to multiply or divide their figures by ten, at least, before accepting them as the basis for discussion.

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.

All art is propaganda.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

In sum, the purpose is to contest the popular view, because popular opinions are so frequently found to be untimely, misled (by propaganda), or plainly wrong.

Over time, the repetition, Donald Trump's lies about election rigging, have become a form of background noise, more of the same. And this is a propaganda technique, whether Trump knows it or not.

All truly great art is propaganda.

The masses favor socialism because they trust the socialist propaganda of the intellectuals. The intellectuals, not the populace, are molding public opinion.

Blacks Bought A Lot Of Propaganda On The Liberal Plantation.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

The media—stenographers to power.

Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

Advocating through art is known as propaganda. You should look up the name Goebbels.

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.

In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

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.

I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

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

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.