Quotes About Propaganda

This way of speaking—"Putin is a killer, but so are we all"—mirrors Putin's own propaganda, which often states, in so many words, "Okay, Russia is corrupt, but so is everyone else.

morphed into political entrepreneurs and propagandists would goad whole civilizations into acts of violence.

This new information world also provides a new set of tools and tactics that another generation of clercs can use to reach people who want simple language, powerful symbols, clear identities. There is no need, nowadays, to form a street movement in order to appeal to those of an authoritarian predisposition. You can construct one in an office

Ten years before Stalin's Great Terror and six years before Hitler came to power, Benda already feared that the writers, journalists, and essayists who had morphed into political entrepreneurs and propagandists would goad whole civilizations into acts of violence. And so it came to pass. If

If we trace these stories back through the centuries, we find how weak their foundations actually are. In fact, they are based on one or two contemporary pieces of propaganda and a prodigious amount of plagiarism. From there we have our modern story of tulipmania.

If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened before it can be called into battle, so on the other we do not doubt that as much enlightenment as possible must be produced with oral and printed agitation.

Al Qaeda has dominated the battlefield of the soul among the disaffected, disenfranchised, and dissatisfied. It promises action instead of discussion.

Everybody is promoting something.

There is not a single international foreign TV channel that is doing something other than promotion of the values of the country that it is broadcasting from.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.

'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

The point of Left-wing propaganda is to make us feel powerless.

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

We have seen the corrupting effects of a deliberate propaganda campaign driven by fake news.

I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda.

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.