George Orwell Quotes About Propaganda

Quotes about: Propaganda

• The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Life, People

• All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

  George Orwell

  Peace, War, Lying

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

  George Orwell

  Mean, Two, Mind

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 2, ch. 9 (1949)

• All art is propaganda.

  George Orwell

  Art, Propaganda, Art Is

  George Orwell (1998). “A patriot after all, 1940-1941”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

• It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

  George Orwell

  War, Fighting, Soldier

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  George Orwell

  Lying, Telling The Truth, Propaganda

  1942 Diary entry,14 Mar.

• In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.

  George Orwell

  Country, Freedom Of Speech, Helpful

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

• In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened."

  George Orwell

  War, Party, Government

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

  George Orwell

  Religious, Art, Book

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

• I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Voice, Stupidity

  1941 In the Partisan Review,15 Apr. Reprinted in Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, vol.2.

• The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a ‘case’, obscuring the opponent’s point of view and avoiding awkward questions.

  George Orwell

  War, Views, Opponents

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: My country right or left, 1940-1943”

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

  George Orwell

  Art, Hands, Propaganda

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