Propaganda Quotes - Page 23

• Health makes good propaganda.

  Naomi Wolf

  Fashion Industry

  "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women". Book by Naomi Wolf, October 24, 1991.

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• I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Country, Thinking, Government

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American troops. But, as I describe in the book, going out on patrol and coming into a village, the soldiers found a stash of documents and decided this was Taliban propaganda.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  Book, Iraq, Soldier

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is exported to the world by the theocracies of the governments of Iran and Saudi Arabia. Just like the Catholic Church in the 17th century did religious propaganda to challenge the Protestant Reformation, these ideologies are trying to define the way Muslims express Islam in the world.

  Asra Nomani

  Religious, Government, Iran

  "The Case Against Wearing Hijab To Support Muslim Women". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

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• That it is not the people who really feel that way, but it is people who have the most money to fire up these propaganda campaigns, these like, basically these lies that they are willing to lie to the public in order to manipulate them into doing what they want. And to me it doesn't make any sense.

  Margaret Cho

  Lying, Fire, Order

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• 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”

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• The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

  H. L. Mencken

  Intelligent, Unintelligent

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• 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”

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• The media—stenographers to power.

  Amy Goodman

  Media

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• I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.

  John Waters

  Powerful, Hate, Ocean

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.34, Macmillan

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• Concision is a technique of propaganda. It ensures you cannot do anything except repeat clichés, the standard doctrine, or sound like a lunatic.

  Noam Chomsky

  Technique, Sound, Doctrine

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• You see, one strand...of anarchism believed that you needed to use essentially homeopathic doses of terror by assassinating people, et cetera, the so-called 'propaganda of the deed', and that this propaganda of the deed would rouse people up, give them confidence to rise up. Another section believed 'No, it was not by seeing something happen that people get confidence, but it's by acting', in other words, the movements must go among the people and produce small struggles, bigger struggles, to give people greater and greater confidence.

  Vijay Prashad

  Struggle, People, Giving

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• Given all of the anti-Muslim propaganda that's being disseminated by The American Nazi media, you have to be careful. It can stress you out.

  Ishmael Reed

  Stress, Media, Nazi

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I very much enjoyed Leo Tolstoy's What is Art? I can't quote it, it's been a while, but at the end of the day, the idea is that "art that does good in the world is art, and what doesn't is not. It's propaganda or something else. It's bad."

  Scott Avett

  Art, Ideas, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The things I saw beggar description ... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty, and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where there were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda".

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Hands, Order

  "Commemorating The 70th Anniversary Of Liberation", www.ushmm.org.

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• Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  World, Destruction, Unreal

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

  Cory Doctorow

  Past, Slides, Stories

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “Eastern Standard Tribe”, p.12, Booklassic

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• In India you don't find propaganda against Pakistan. During the war there was a little of it, naturally, but even during the war we were able to control it. In fact the Pakistanis were astonished by this. There were prisoners in the camp hospitals who exclaimed, 'What? You're a Hindu doctor and you want to cure me?'

  Indira Gandhi

  War, Doctors, India

  Source: sangam.org

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• In the years since The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, Voinovich has sharpened his satire, and Monumental Propaganda is a novel that slashes and rips -- but not on every page. He expands his narrative to accommodate shrewd philosophy and inventive portraiture, a very amusing disquisition on Soviet latrines and a number of outlandish plot developments. In his translation, Andrew Bromfield deftly shifts his tone and tools as required, remaining true to Voinovich's Vonnegut-like playfulness and appreciation of the absurd.

  Ken Kalfus

  Appreciation, Rip, Philosophy

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• Ask a fellow if he favors organized prayer in the public schools. If he says 'No' he's a liberal. If he says 'Yes' he's a conservative. If he says, 'Public schools? The Constitution grants the government no power to run any mandatory tax-funded youth propaganda camps,' you have your hands on the wily libertarian.

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Running, Prayer, School

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• More than anyone else, Adolf Hitler completely understood the union between government propaganda and between - and advertising, that they were in some ways the same thing.

  Tim Wu

  Government, Unions, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Propaganda begins when dialogue ends.

  Jacques Ellul

  Ends, Dialogue

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• What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world - that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.

  Richard Lindzen

  Powerful, Special, World

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• I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.

  Alan Alda

  Play

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• Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.

  Alexander Haig

  Important, Arms, Diplomacy

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