Propaganda Quotes
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It remains, as ever, an axiom of conventional wisdom that the use of propaganda as a means of social and ideological control is distinctive of totalitarian regimes. Yet the most minimal exercise of common sense would suggest a different view: that propaganda is likely to play at least as important a part in democratic societies (where the existing distribution of power and privilege is vulnerable to quite limited changes in popular opinion) as in authoritarian societies (where it is not). It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
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Even with the help of anti-Russian propaganda in the mass media, Germany has not succeeded in damaging this sympathy.
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Unfortunately, propaganda works.
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The truth is the best propaganda.
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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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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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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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Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.
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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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In dealing with the Communists, remember that in their mind what is secret is serious, and what is public is merely propaganda.
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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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We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war. All of this was part of a well-financed propaganda campaign on the part of British agents. As usual, the government of the United States was being "run" by the British Secret Intelligence Service.
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The Central Propaganda Department is the highest-ranking censorship agency in China. And it has control over everything from the appointment of newspaper editors to university professors to the way that films are cut and distributed.
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Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.
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The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense.
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All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.
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Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.
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Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?
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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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Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.
