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• the insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

  Hannah Arendt

  Peace, War, Lying

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• 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.

  Jane Addams

  Desire, Spirit, Christianity

  Jane Addams, Jean Bethke Elshtain (2002). “The Jane Addams Reader”, p.23, Basic Books

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• In a way, this is what the difference is between Hong Kong and Chinese cinema - Chinese cinema was made for their own communities. It was for propaganda. But Hong Kong made films to entertain, and they know how to communicate with international audiences.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Differences, Community, Chinese

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.

  Alex Carey

  Views, Culture, World

  Alex Carey, Andrew Lohrey (1997). “Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

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• Study history. Separate fears and prejudices from facts. Recognize facts from propaganda. Invest energy in fighting for what you believe in. Analyze harder where we are going and what you are doing about it. What do you really believe in? How much do we care?

  Mae Brussell

  Believe, Fighting, Energy

  Mae Brussell (2014). “The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America”, p.97, Feral House

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• What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they're not compatible.

  David Hare

  Creative, Different, Hue

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• 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

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• We are hurtling towards self-destruction at an alarming rate thanks chiefly to an advertising and propaganda system that goads people from infancy towards apathy, isolation, passivity, helplessness and separation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Self, People, Apathy

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• Among some of the organized methods used to control the world is the thing known and called PROPAGANDA. Propaganda has done more to defeat the good intentions of races and nations than even open warfare. Propaganda is a method or medium used by organized peoples to convert others against their will. We of the Negro race are suffering more than any other race in the world from propaganda... propaganda to destroy our hopes, our ambitions and our confidence in self.

  Marcus Garvey

  Ambition, Self Confidence, Race

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• This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons of literature to impress scattered Ethiopia, especially that portion within their civilization, with the idea that Africa is a despised place, inhabited by savages, and cannibals, where no civilized human being should go, especially black civilized human beings. This propaganda is promulgated for the cause that is being realized today. That cause is COLONIAL EXPANSION for the white nations of the world.

  Marcus Garvey

  Years, Civilization, Ideas

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.54, The Majority Press

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• And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.

  Robert W. Welch, Jr.

  Thinking, Democracy, Republic

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• 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

  Skills, Special, Posters

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• Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.

  Hans Haacke

  Educational, Museums, Views

  "Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere". Book by Michael Kimmelman, 1998.

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

  David Shuster

  Fox News, Foxes, Doe

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

  David Mamet

  Art, Differences, Entertainment

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• In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

  Erich Fromm

  Baby, Real, War

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko... all believed in the social role of art... Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity with activity. Art with engineering; music with painting; poetry with design; fine art with propaganda; photographs with typography; diagrams with action; the studio with the street.

  John Berger

  Art, Doors, Engineering

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• 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.

  George Soros

  Successful, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.

  Richard N. Haass

  Tools, Television, Selling

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• The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

  Albert Einstein

  Intellectual, Groups, Spirit

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• The Western public should learn and remember one essential thing about China: no matter what European and North American propaganda barks about the People's Republic, China is much more "democratic" than the West. It is democratic in its own way.

  Andre Vltchek

  People, Essentials, Republic

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

  Arthur Keith

  War, Mean, Imagination

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• In the mid-1980s, however, the Estonian TV programmers came up with a clever idea: they asked Moscow for millions of rubles to make propaganda in Estonia to fight the Finnish programs' popularity. They got millions from the government, but what they made was not propaganda at all! They simply made good, entertaining programs - no one in Estonia recognized them as propaganda, only Russia thought it was, so they got away with it. Of course, Russia provided their own propaganda programs, but Estonians knew to avoid them.

  Jaak Kilmi

  Clever, Fighting, Ideas

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Art is about freedom of expression, and should not be molded to fit any propaganda or lofty ideal.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Expression, Fit

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One of ISIS' biggest propaganda coups was the beheadings of the aid workers and journalists. Is [Emni], the group that is exporting fighters overseas, also the one that was holding James Foley and John Cantlie and Kayla Mueller?

  Rukmini Maria Callimachi

  Isis, Groups, Kayla

  Source: www.politico.com

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