Propaganda Quotes - Page 20

• 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

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• Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this consent of 'the people' exists only in theory. It has no existence in fact. Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

  Lysander Spooner

  Reality, Government, People

  Lysander Spooner (1847). “The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second”, p.153

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• Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse to carry out upon women.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Men, Practice, Feminist

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• The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Essence, Intuition

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man: the Evolution”, p.113, VM eBooks

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• There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment.

  Noam Chomsky

  Political, Profit, Establishment

  "'The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System'". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• Men willingly believe what they wish.

  Julius Caesar

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

  Julius Caesar “Commentaries on the Gallic Wars”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  Samuel Butler

  Trust, Print Media, People

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

  Harry Browne

  War, Firsts, Truth Is

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• The same day I saw my first horror camp, I visited every nook and cranny. I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Home, Saws, Firsts

  DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER “Crusade in Europe”

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• It's quite scary when academics start dictating to artists that they should be politically correct or follow certain rules of behavior - which means we have to start making dishonest work, which means it becomes didactic and propaganda in nature.

  Pieter Hugo

  Mean, Artist, Scary

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Mexico just needs more journalists, and especially more good places to publish and exhibit. There are all kinds of censorship practiced in Mexico, not just violent repression. Perhaps the biggest threat to good journalism here is the massive power of the country's media monoliths - Televisa and TV Azteca - who have 80% of the market. They endlessly saturate the country with propaganda and inanity.

  Francisco Goldman

  Country, Journalism, Censorship

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I hate political films that have one particular message that they're trying to convey. I think propaganda is very dangerous, and it's very easy for anything to slip into it. I also think that propaganda is something that defies the identity of cinema. I hate propaganda in cinema, even if it was promoting the political stance that I myself am allied with. I always say that the responsibility of a film is first and foremost: To be a film. It's not a manifesto, it's not an op-ed.

  Tamer El Said

  Hate, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I remember my days as a graduate student at Stanford, within any leading university, a very active Israeli support, for Israel, Jews fighting for the cause of Israel. Now you find Israelis, former Israelis, and Arabs, and Jews, fighting for the Palestinian cause. We are somehow losing the moral high ground, and I keep telling our people it's great to deal with propaganda, to activate many ways, to deploy PR firms all around the world.

  Ehud Barak

  Fighting, People, Support

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

  Jack Steinberger

  Noses, Faces, Hateful

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• So much of the news was invented for propaganda.

  Elsa Morante

  News

  Elsa Morante (2015). “History: A Novel”, p.73, Steerforth

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• The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

  Jacques Ellul

  Television, Radio, Influence

  "Jan. 6, 1912: Birth of the Supreme Tech Skeptic", www.wired.com. January 5, 2009.

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• It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

  Jacques Ellul

  Media, Technique, Use

  "Jan. 6, 1912: Birth of the Supreme Tech Skeptic", www.wired.com. January 5, 2009.

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• Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

  Jerry Falwell

  Textbooks, Soviet Propaganda, Soviet

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• It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Children, Writing, Learning

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• What I may call the messages of Brave New World, but it is possible to make people contented with their servitude. I think this can be done. I think it has been done in the past. I think it could be done even more effectively now because you can provide them with bread and circuses and you can provide them with endless amounts of distractions and propaganda.

  Aldous Huxley

  Past, Brave New World, Thinking

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• It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

  John Boyd Orr

  War, Mad, Hatred

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• Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

  A. R. Ammons

  Art, Mean, Self

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• Art functioning as propaganda is not art.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Art

  Twitter post from Dec 30, 2014

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• The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Government, Political, United States

  PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY (1964). “A CHOICE NOT AN ECHO”

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• Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves

  Robert McKee

  Moving, Two, Profound

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