Propaganda Quotes - Page 2

• The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mein Kampf, Want, Lasts

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• The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

  Edward Bernays

  Defense

  "The Father of Spin". Book by Larry Tye, p. 102, 1998.

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• Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

  Alan Coren

  Freedom, Thinking, Democracies Have

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with.

  Adolf Hitler

  Attitude, Media, Firsts

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf”, p.347, Adolf Hitler

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• Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

  Edward Bernays

  Government, Arms, Manipulation

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• Propaganda is amazing,
  people can be led to believe anything.

  Alice Walker

  Believe, People, Amazing People

  "Alice Walker discusses two new collections". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. July 12, 2013.

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• The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

  Michael Crichton

  Reality, Thinking, Challenges

  Remarks to the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, www.cs.cmu.edu. September 15, 2003.

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• Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Freedom, Hypocrite, Hands

  Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”

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• The Republican Party can lead any person to believe that their promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lying, Matter, Enough

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• 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)

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• You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.

  Edward Snowden

  Voters, Information, Negative

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Hate, Writing, Language

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• 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

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• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

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• Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.

  Khalil Gibran

  Utopia, Stealing, Possession

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• I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Support, Understanding

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.48, Pantheon

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• 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.

  Joss Whedon

  Thinking, News, Want

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• 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

  Mean, Want, Support Our Troops

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.26, Seven Stories Press

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• All propaganda must be confined to a few bare necessities and then must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas . . . Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea upon the memory of a crowd.

  Adolf Hitler

  Memories, Ideas, Crowds

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• This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Ideas, Secret, Should

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• Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

  Adolf Hitler

  Clever, Lying, Rise To Power

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• The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

  Stefan Molyneux

  Purpose, Offensive, Obscure

  Twitter post from Dec 15, 2016

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  False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

  Plato

  Truth, Attitude, Lying

  Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

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• That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Intelligent, Tasks, Failing

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• One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Military, War, Support

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