Propaganda Quotes - Page 27

• The evil of the Holocaust was realized through the exercise of a certain kind of power - coercive power. It was a power that sought to dominate and control. It was a power legitimated through law, buttressed by propaganda, augmented by terror, and affected through all the institutions of society.

  Mary Jo Leddy

  Exercise, Law, Evil

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• For me, Twitter is a public persona. It's UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion (what can you really say in 140 characters?), but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Character, Tools, Use

  "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 15, 2014.

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• What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.

  Brock Chisholm

  Civilization, America, Morality

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• If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text without bothering to delve into its implications -- which in time will make them prey to propaganda and to assertions based on scanty evidence, or none.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Reading, Mean

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• I have sworn upon the altar of god.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Government, Faith Religion

  Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800

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• We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Principles, Deeds, Form

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• When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the word "councelor of public relations".

  Edward Bernays

  War, Trying, United States

  "The Century of the Self". Documentary, 2002.

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• There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.

  Warren E. Burger

  Long, Risk, Speech

  "Open The System, Don't Close It" by Edward H. Crane, www.cnn.com. November 25, 1996.

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• They [NPR] are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any other point of view. They don't even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive.

  Roger Ailes

  Attitude, Wings, Npr

  "NPR Is 'Left Wing Of Nazism' Says Fox News Chairman". The Daily Beast Interview, www.businessinsider.com. November 18, 2010.

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• Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter how mild or tactful it may be, it is called 'propaganda,' or is labeled 'controversial.' Those two words have come to have a very ominous sound to me.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Two, Black, Want

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Views, Avant Garde

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.19, Beacon Press

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• There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

  Jenny Holzer

  Lines, Information, Fine

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• [T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the U. S. control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large newspapers, the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and there is a force that we have to take into consideration.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Israel, Machines, Television

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• Breaking new factual ground is not what Zeitgeist is about, however. Rather, the video is a powerful and fast-acting dose of agitprop, hawking its conclusions as givens. Unfortunately, like most propaganda, it doesn’t play fair with its intended audience. At times, while watching it, I felt like I was getting Malcolm McDowell’s treatment in Clockwork Orange: eyes pried wide open while getting bombarded with quick-cut atrocity photos.

  Jay Kinney

  Powerful, Eye, Cutting

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• We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans.

  William J. Clinton

  Gun, Rights, Government

  Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.223, Best Books on

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• Advocating through art is known as propaganda. You should look up the name Goebbels.

  Glenn Beck

  Art, Names, Goebbels

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• An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.

  Mark Van Doren

  Insecure, Errors, Ideas

  Mark Van Doren (1954*). “Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof”

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• The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.

  Karl Radek

  Pain, Struggle, Home

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• The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda.

  Emma Goldman

  Color, Glowing, People

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• I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

  Hillary Clinton

  Use, Revision, Manipulation

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• when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  War, Trying, World

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, William Maxwell (1982). “Letters”

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• All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.

  Pauline Kael

  Advertising, Life Is, Courses

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• The truth is the best propaganda.

  Adolf Hitler

  Truth Is

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• The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.

  Jacques Ellul

  Men, Influence, Mass

  "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes". Book by Jacques Ellul, translated by Konrad Kellen and Jean Lerner, 1965.

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• It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

  Ayn Rand

  Peace, Truth, Freedom

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.224, Penguin

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