Propaganda famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
-- Adolf Hitler -
All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.
-- Adolf Hitler -
To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.
-- Adolf Hitler -
All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.
-- Alan Sillitoe -
It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.
-- Alex Carey -
Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.
-- Alice Walker -
I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.
-- Ayad Akhtar -
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.
-- Ben Shahn -
No amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.
-- Chrissie Hynde -
The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.
-- Edward Bernays -
So much of the news was invented for propaganda.
-- Elsa Morante -
Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.
-- Frank Rich -
We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
-- Garry Kasparov -
Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, as well as Abu Musab Zarqawi, have made it quite clear in their internal propaganda that they cannot win unless they can drive the Americans out. And they know that they can't do that there, so they've brought the battlefield to the halls of Congress.
-- Geoff Davis -
All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.
-- George Orwell -
All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.
-- George Orwell -
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
-- Harold Pinter -
It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.
-- Herbert M. Shelton -
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey -
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
-- I. F. Stone -
When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them
-- Jacques Ellul -
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.
-- Jacques Ellul -
The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.
-- Jacques Ellul -
Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve .
-- Jacques Ellul -
We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice.
-- James P. Hogan -
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.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
There's a fine line between information and propaganda.
-- Jenny Holzer -
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
-- John F. Kennedy -
The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.
-- John Silber -
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
-- Joseph Goebbels -
It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.
-- Joseph Goebbels -
Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
-- Joseph Goebbels -
Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.
-- Joseph Goebbels -
As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to participate actively in the work of our press.
-- Leonid Brezhnev -
That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.
-- Lindsey Buckingham -
History is the propaganda of the victors.
-- Louis de Bernieres -
Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.
-- Ludwig Quidde -
Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.
-- Margo Kingston -
Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.
-- Martin Parr -
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.
-- Martin Parr -
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.
-- Mikhail Bakunin -
Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.
-- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi -
That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.
-- Noam Chomsky -
There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.
-- Noam Chomsky -
Blacks Bought A Lot Of Propaganda On The Liberal Plantation.
-- Pat Buchanan -
All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.
-- Pauline Kael -
Communication is always " propaganda ." The emitter always wants "to get something across.
-- Peter Drucker -
Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.
-- Richard N. Haass -
Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?
-- Sean Hannity -
The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.
-- Shane Smith -
Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.
-- Susan Brownmiller -
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
-- Upton Sinclair -
Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
-- Vladimir Lenin -
All news is lies and all propaganda is disguised as news.
-- Willi Munzenberg -
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.
-- Arnold Leese -
Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.
-- Charles Hugh Smith -
There is no difference between Western media and Nazi propaganda.
-- Evgeni Kostitsyn -
A linear projection into the future of any science or technology is like a form of propaganda &emdash; often persuasive, almost always wrong.
-- Pamela McCorduck -
Could you do a liberal propaganda tool that would bore the bejesus out of people? No.
-- Stephanie Miller -
Propaganda rarely makes good art.
-- Susan Sutherland Isaacs -
I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.
-- Youssou N'Dour -
The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.
-- Andrew Breitbart -
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.
-- Brian Stelter -
Content alone is propaganda; form alone is wallpaper.
-- Philip Jones Griffiths -
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.
-- Romare Bearden
