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Quotes About Propaganda

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
~ Lester B. Pearson
People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.
~ John Boyne
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
~ Stefan Zweig
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
~ Douglas MacArthur
One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
~ Douglas MacArthur
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
~ Douglas MacArthur
People nowadays don't know about the Cold War and the U.S.'s old rivalry with the U.S.S.R.
~ Hideo Kojima
Esso has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.
~ James Lovelock
The attacks on global warming are no different than the attacks the cigarettes companies used to use to say that cigarettes don't cause cancer.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the outset of the French Revolution, was 'the son of a half-breed Indian squaw' who would put opponents under the guillotine.
~ Robert Dallek
It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
~ L. Neil Smith
Things that appear on the front page of the newspaper as 'fact' are far more dangerous than the games played by a novelist, and can lead to wars.
~ E. L. Doctorow
Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.
~ Bruce Jackson
All governments in all wars have used all the means at their disposal to put their own motives, decisions and actions, and the actions of their military forces, in the best possible light.
~ Bruce Jackson
If you start studying history closer, you'll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people - to convince the people that they're under attack in some way so that they will support the wars.
~ Jesse Ventura
In my humble opinion, propaganda is one of the most evil tools humans have used against humans throughout history to justify wars, justify atrocities, justify evil. ISIS has taken it to a new extreme.
~ Matthew Heineman
The advertising men made it clear that there were two ways of looking at ideas in a war against fascism. Those of us who were working on the project believed ideas were to be fought for; the advertising men believed they were to be sold. The audience, those at home in wartime, were not 'citizens' or 'people.' They were 'customers.'
~ Muriel Rukeyser
We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.
~ Douglas Hurd
Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.
~ Paul Weyrich
Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.
~ RALPH STEADMAN (ILLUSTRATOR)
This took the shape of government announcements paid for by the Directorate of Audio-Visual Publicity (DAVP). While 'liberally granting advertisements to so-called "friendly" periodicals', the DAVP withdrew their favours from those deemed critical of the government.
~ Ramachandra Guha
Jana Sangh ko vote do, bidi peena chhod do/ Bidi mein tambaku hai, Kangresswala daku hai'.
~ Ramachandra Guha
Bootlicking mainstream media is spreading wrong picture of the farmers protest and the foolish viewers are accepting it.
~ Raneshwar Sing Kishan
Filmy style is used by Govt to snub the voice of dissentors. Send own Goondas in the midst of villages to pelt stone on protestors and to make them clash and bootlicking media covers the picture through camera in such a way that it misguide viewers
~ Raneshwar Sing Kishan