Walter Lippmann Quotes About Propaganda

Quotes about: Propaganda

• We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Cynical, Humanity

• Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.

  Walter Lippmann

  Order, Tyrants, Events

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.23, Courier Corporation

• The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

  Walter Lippmann

  Book, People, Office

  1920 Liberty and the News,'What Modern Liberty Means'.

• But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Effort, Patterns

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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