Propaganda Quotes - Page 28

• I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

  Keith Haring

  Art, Thinking, Imagination

  Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.9, Penguin

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• What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?

  Ron Paul

  Lying, War, Order

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• Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.

  George Santayana

  Confused, Lying, Competition

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group in the Labour Party which would serve my purpose best for propaganda along internationalist lines.

  Norman Angell

  Party, Wings, Groups

  "After All: The Autobiography of Norman Angell". Book by Norman Angell, 1951.

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• Over time, the repetition, Donald Trump's lies about election rigging, have become a form of background noise, more of the same. And this is a propaganda technique, whether Trump knows it or not.

  Brian Stelter

  Lying, Election, Repetition

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• [Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America.

  David Lloyd George

  Sorry, Sea, America

  "The Riddell Diaries 1908-1923". Book by George Allardice Riddell, 1986.

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• It's much better to talk about the media as a system of propaganda and abuse, of manufactured consent, than it is to claim it's some kind of democratizing force that is not responsible for what it does. The notion that the media simply reflects reality is an argument that justifies its flight from responsibility.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, Reality, Abuse

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

  Peter Kreeft

  Believe, Practice, Hypocrisy

  "The Pillars of Unbelief". National Catholic Register, January - February 1988.

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• National chauvinism is a very tough nut to crack, since a vast propaganda network is in place to keep the workers whipped up into a patriotic frenzy. Maybe this will change, but I doubt it unless it is addressed.

  Michael Yates

  Patriotic, Nuts, Doubt

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda campaign conducted by movement conservatives, which has been quite successful in making Americans disdain the word liberal but much less successful in reducing support for liberal policies.

  Paul Krugman

  Successful, Long, People

  Paul Krugman (2009). “The Conscience of a Liberal”, p.268, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When the Jew says "mankind" he is talking about himself. It is written in the Talmud, that only Jews were human beings, gentiles on the other hand were animals created to serve the chosen people. If looking back and comparing the corresponding articles in the "democratic" and "neutral" countries, one is astonished at the systematic nature of the propaganda whose final goal was the creation of a state of affairs in which a war was inevitable.

  Julius Streicher

  Country, War, Animal

  "Der Stürmer" Newspaper, September 5, 1940.

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• It has been said that the United States was deceived into entering and expanding the Vietnam War by its own overoptimistic propaganda. The record suggests, however, that the policy-makers stayed in Vietnam not so much because of overly optimistic hopes of winning ... as because of overly pessimistic assessments of the consequences of losing.

  Jonathan Schell

  War, Optimistic, Winning

  Jonathan Schell (1987). “The real war: the classic reporting on the Vietnam War with a new essay”, Pantheon

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• You can't mention Hezbollah in the U.S. media without putting in the context of "Iranian-supported Hezbollah." That's its name. Its name is Iranian-supported Hezbollah. It gets Iranian support. But you can mention Israel without saying US-supported Israel. So this is more tacit propaganda.

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Media, Names

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The continual linking of the notions of terrorist and terrorism with Muslims and the Middle East is, essentially, an act of propaganda that cannot help but promote "Islamophobia."

  Lawrence Davidson

  Middle East, Helping, Terrorism

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Every time a candidate came up from the base, that is with popular support, the Republican establishment went into high gear to destroy them with massive propaganda attack ads and so on. It was one after another, each one crazier than the last.

  Noam Chomsky

  Support, Gears, Lasts

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Now we have to understand that slavery would not have ended if it was left to the Africans alone, Now, Europe understood that what they were doing then was unjust, but imagine the propaganda from kings and queens of Europe to convince their people that we were cannibals, idol worshipers, horrible people, bastards, godless monkeys.

  Femi Kuti

  People, Slavery, Imagine

  Source: www.premiumtimesng.com

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• That's because of everything the public interest and the media interest is focused on: What did Donald Trump know and when did he know it? Whether there was cooperation with the Russians. I don't mean to say that's a distraction or we shouldn't follow it up. But the underlying story of the Russians trying to subvert our democracy, both through propaganda, planted stories, manipulation of social media and through direct efforts to infiltrate our state election system, is really an enormously significant event. And it's not over.

  Angus King

  Mean, Effort, Democracy

  "This Voice of Reason Rises From the Swamp". Interview With Albert R. Hunt, www.bloomberg.com. June 18, 2017.

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• This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some skepticism, because I grew up during the Cold War, so I had been hit with all this propaganda all along that their stuff wasn't that good, it wasn't that safe and we were so much better. What I found out later was that their space stuff was very good and good enough that I was certainly comfortable flying on their equipment. So, it was kind of a revelation of sorts as the years went by and I think it underscores the importance right now of international cooperation.

  Leroy Chiao

  War, Thinking, Flying

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Narratives that were taken for granted when I was a kid are still there, but they don't have the same depth and fervor anymore. Even the makers of the propaganda don't fully believe the propaganda. The surface structures are more frozen than they ever were, but the core is hollowing out, and it's becoming very fragile. People don't believe in the system anymore. But they're still going along with it because, one, they don't know what else is possible, they don't even know anything else is possible. Secondly, everybody else is doing it. So they go through the motions.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Believe, Taken, Kids

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• If you think about it enough to have a really articulate answer, you're not doing it right. That's how I feel about art. If your thought process could take you to knowing exactly what you're doing and why, there would be no point in making the art. It would become like propaganda. It's more nebulous than that.

  Daniel Clowes

  Art, Thinking, Enough

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We found ourselves believing or allowing ourselves to believe what our industries told us, which is lead helps to guard your health was one of the ads that appeared in the 1920s. Lead takes place in modern games, lead is part of our everyday life, all these ads and propaganda that came out of the very time when physicians and public health workers and reports were appearing of children around the country who were literally at that point dying and going into convulsions because lead was poisoning them.

  David Rosner

  Country, Children, Believe

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• I grew up during the Communist time. When I was a student and I especially wanted to play rock, that was a problem for all rock musicians in the Soviet Union. My friends liked it, but all the Communist officials, bureaucrats, teachers, didn't like this. There was very powerful propaganda against capitalism and the Western ideology. Everything that was connected to the West - rock music, jeans, long hair, loud music - everything was not allowed. But luckily that's now in the past. I hope.

  Albert Kuvezin

  Teacher, Powerful, Past

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice.

  James P. Hogan

  Looks, Way, Saturated

  James P. Hogan (1997). “Paths to Otherwhere”, Pocket Books

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• The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action.

  Jacques Ellul

  Ideas, Action, Modern

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

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• For me, Twitter is a public persona. I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion, but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Opinion, Wonderful, Persona

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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