Propaganda Quotes
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Unfortunately, propaganda works.
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Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
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The truth is the best propaganda.
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Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.
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I believe that competition in the future will not be only an advertising competition between individual products or between big associations, but that it will in addition be a competition of propaganda.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of criminal incompetents or scoundrels in our propaganda service, our battle with Destiny would have taken a different turn.
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Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid.
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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.
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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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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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Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States.
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So much of the news was invented for propaganda.
