Quotes with propaganda

  • Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
  • Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording... Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
  • 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.

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  • Adolf Hitler 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
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Adolf Hitler As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Alice Walker Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Carroll Quigley ...the nineteenth century Age of Expansion... brought on an acceleration of the main focus of the activities of society... from the areas of internal controls to the areas of external controls....the increasing role of propaganda... helped create an impression of stability.
    Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • J. G. Ballard After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.
    Source: Crash (1973)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • George Orwell All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Carroll Quigley Another aspect of the nineteenth century propaganda system is the increasing emphasis upon material desires.
    Source: Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Adolf Hitler By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Albert Speer Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.
    Albert Speer
    German architect and Minister of Armaments during WWII (1905 - 1981)
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  • Louis de Bernieres History is the propaganda of the victors.
    Source: Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 57
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording... Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Brit Hume If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Kofi Annan 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
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Barbara Demick In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Bob Dylan Money doesn't talk, it swears.
    Obscenity, who really cares? Propaganda all is phony.
    Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Rita Mae Brown Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Brad Holland Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Elizabeth Drew 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
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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