Propaganda Quotes - Page 5

• It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

  Harold Pinter

  Literature, Easy, Dissent

  "Pinter: I won't be silenced". Interview with Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2001.

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• When there is change, it must not alter the content of what propaganda is driving at, but in the end must always say the same thing. For instance, a slogan must be presented from different angles, but the end of all remarks must always and immutably be the slogan itself. Only in this way can the propaganda have a unified and complete effect.

  Adolf Hitler

  Media, Different, Way

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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• I would say we must win the information war against ISIS. Every war we have ever been involved in has had a propaganda informational aspect to it.

  Marco Rubio

  War, Winning, Isis

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Grief, Our World

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• The art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to the attention and thence to the heart of the broad masses.

  Adolf Hitler

  Art, Lying, Emotional

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• The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.

  George Seldes

  Heart, Media, Deceit

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• Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

  Gertrude Stein

  Way, Population, Forget

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1957). “The Yale Edition of the Unpublished Writings of Gertrude Stein: Alphabets and birthdays”

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• Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.

  Jacque Fresco

  Freedom, Acceptance, Games

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• Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

  Kofi Annan

  Ignorance, Hands, Racism

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• Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents and opponents of every propaganda, both of whom are equally eager to convince the majority.

  Edward Bernays

  Thinking, Competition, Majority

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.

  Steve Irwin

  Future, Believe, Apex Predators

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• Art is inherently subversive. It’s destabilizing. It undermines what you already know and what you already think. It is the opposite of propaganda.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Art, Thinking, Opposites

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• [Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way.

  Adolf Hitler

  Hate, Lying, Media

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Sacrifice, Issues

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• Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Atheism, Program

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• A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Simple, June, Effort

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• And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

  John Grierson

  Art, Powerful, Information

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• For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

  John Amery

  Country, Fog, Years

  John Amery (2007). “John Amery Speaks, &: England and Europe”

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• The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy.

  Alex Carey

  Wisdom, Democracies Have, Australia Day

  Alex Carey, Andrew Lohrey (1997). “Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda Versus Freedom and Liberty”, p.18, University of Illinois Press

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• Unfortunately, propaganda works.

  Andy Rooney

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• The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Media, Mein Kampf

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.238, eKitap Projesi

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• Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Writing, Self, Names

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• There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Military, Fighting, Marine

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• Hitler and Joseph Goebbels understood that if you say something loud and long enough many people will believe it. A good journalist's first priority should be to separate propaganda from fact - but sometimes its very hard to do that.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Believe, Long, People

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• Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  War, Hawks, Organize

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.110, Beacon Press

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