Propaganda Quotes
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The legendary missionary journey of St. Paul, which led to the foundation of the British church, presupposes the existence of a Jewish community - always the initial object of his propaganda - even before the capture of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70.
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Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.
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Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.
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The truth is the best propaganda.
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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.
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Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Because so many poets have chosen a political idiom right now in the US and so many poets have assigned value and inherent knowledge to their racial identity and used that as a form of argumentation, I'm thinking now's a good time to buy low for my own poems and write poems that are deeply in the interior and the psyche. There are plenty of people out there working on subjects of political poetry, partisan poetry, all the way through to crossing the threshold of propaganda. I start thinking now's a good time for me to start writing about the myths of my own psyche.
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Unfortunately, propaganda works.
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If this country America is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.
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Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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.
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Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.
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Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.
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In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to over-advertise an institution and to create in the public mind artificial values. There can be no absolute guarantee against its misuse.
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The twentieth 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 as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.
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Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?
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Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
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There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.
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Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.
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Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.
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I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian- Social movement, especially in Lueger's time achieved a certain virtuosity on this instrument, to which it owed many of its success.
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In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda.
