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The truth is the best propaganda.
— Adolf Hitler
Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.
— Helen Mirren
Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
— Joseph Goebbels
Every state's emblematic propaganda is worshiped by the consumer-citizen as a super-logo, a brand Juggernaut.
— Bryant McGill
All writing is propaganda for the self.
— Jill Soloway
News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.
— Frank Miller
You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.
— Graham Hancock
I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.
— Mark Potok
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
— Heinlein Robert A.
Inventive rhetoric is characteristic of true believers.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.
— Adolf Hitler
The mother tongue is propaganda.
— Marshall McLuhan
So much of the news was invented for propaganda.
— Elsa Morante
The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.
— Daniel Handler
Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
— Vladimir Lenin
When causes are vague and goals uncertain... it becomes necessary to fall back on the bloated and honeyed words of propaganda.
— Peter Englund
My mother had spent one hundred dollars on shipping to send me cookies, antimeat propaganda, and laxatives.
— Molly Harper
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
— Adolf Hitler
Propaganda begins when dialogue ends. (Quoted by Marshall McLuhan in McLuhan Hot & Cool)
— Jacques Ellul
I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography.
— Henry V. O'Neil
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.
— Criss Jami
Not only does American corn syrup run deep in our food - it also runs deep in our propaganda.
— Joshua Emmet
American colleges and universities are propaganda machines
— Walter Benn Michaels
Information is controlled because the free flow of truth is not always expedient for those wishing to maintain control.
— Bryant McGill
Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.
— John Pilger
Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.
— Vladimir Putin
It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.
— Herbert M. Shelton
I'm not really sure what gay propaganda is.
— Chris Pine
Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
— Jerry Falwell
No special academic expertise is required for insight into the Orwellian use of language, only clear thinking and common sense.
— Peter Slezak
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
— D.H. Lawrence
Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.
— Aleksandar Hemon
The most disgusting human trait is bias, because it typically leads to propaganda, hate and violence.
— Lori Goodwin
Education is either self-discovery or propaganda.
— Marty Rubin
Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect."
"Yes, it is. But it is politically correct."
(The Rise of Political Correctness) — Angelo Codevilla
"Yes, it is. But it is politically correct."
(The Rise of Political Correctness) — Angelo Codevilla
The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs.
— Steven Magee
The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes.
— Gil J Wolman
There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.
— Joseph Goebbels
The anthology was not a best-seller; art as a weapon seldom is.
— Lyle W. Dorsett
All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.
— George Orwell
My view is FOX News is a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party and I don't comment on FOX News.
— Howard Dean
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
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
— Jack Steinberger
An element of propaganda, of sales and marketing, always intervened between the inner and the outer person.
— Julian Barnes
When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them
— Jacques Ellul
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.
— Jacques Ellul
Yeah, well, I try to think for myself once in a while, rather than buy in to the ridiculous propaganda the media would have us believe.
— Marissa Meyer
Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.
— James A.C. Brown
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.
— Walter Benjamin
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
— George Orwell
The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it's not journalism.
— Pete Hamill
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
Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.
— Harold Evans
Nationalism is pimped-out bigotry, designed to provoke a Stockholm Syndrome in the livestock.
— Stefan Molyneux
How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?
— Frank Herbert
In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.
— Bill Kovach
All truly great art is propaganda ...
— Ann Petry
For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.
— Noam Chomsky
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
— Joseph Goebbels
In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army.
— Smedley D. Butler
we've played right into it and created our own echo chambers of propaganda.
— Nathaniel Greene
Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.
— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
— I. F. Stone
It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.
— Jacques Ellul
Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.
— Charles Hugh Smith
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
— Lysander Spooner
Propaganda rarely makes good art.
— Susan Sutherland Isaacs
Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage.
— Daniel Wallace
A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.
— Susan Sontag
See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
— George W. Bush
All photography is propaganda.
— Martin Parr
The health of democracy, not its hate, is its best propaganda.
— Judith C. Waller
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
— J.G. Ballard
Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such,
— Hannah Arendt
If exercising the right to vote were truly effective, the government would not be so eager to promote it.
— Andrew P. Napolitano
During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.
— Erik Larson
When he won, it proved that God was on his side. When he didn't win, it meant that God wanted him to try harder.
— P.J. Sullivan
The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.
— Joss Whedon
Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner.
— Ernest Partridge
Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
— David Mamet
It is a fact that the USA corporate government routinely lies to its mass population.
— Steven Magee
Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.
— David Shuster
Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.
— Edward L. Bernays
History is the propaganda of the victors.
— Louis De Bernieres
Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.
— Decimius Magnus Ausonius