Propaganda Quotes

All art is propaganda...I do not care a damn, for any art that is not used for propaganda.

Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.

The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

Content alone is propaganda; form alone is wallpaper.

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.

Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.

Propaganda is necessary only for the sake of money!

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is 'objective,' all else is propaganda.

Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

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

Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.

We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice.

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

Art functioning as propaganda is not art.

History is the propaganda of the victors.

Left to my own devices, in the face of the climate change deniers, the madness and the greed-based decision-making, and propaganda that's been floating around, it's hard not to become pessimistic.

Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.

Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be.

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.

The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force.

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.

The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.

No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.

The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.

It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.

So much of the news was invented for propaganda.

The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda.

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement.

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.