Propaganda Quotes

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. (Eric Hoffer)
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. View quote
Noam Chomsky
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. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. View quote
Noam Chomsky
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth. View quote
John F. Kennedy
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. View quote
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? View quote
Bertrand Russell
Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. View quote
Edward Bernays
The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda. View quote
Edward Bernays
The only difference between "propaganda" and "education," really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda. (Edward Bernays)
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda. View quote
Martin Buber
I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad. View quote
Ayad Akhtar
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. View quote
Elihu Root
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda. View quote
Lindsey Buckingham
And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic. View quote
Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Soviet propaganda is remarkably effective and the Americans are even more remarkably stupid. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil. (Ayn Rand)
[Lloyd George] said that Harding's speech on American naval aspirations made him feel that he would pawn his shirt rather than allow America to dominate the seas. If this was to be the outcome of the League of Nations propaganda, he was sorry for the world and in particular for America. View quote
David Lloyd George
The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And the struggle against these elements cannot be waged with propaganda and agitation alone. ... The struggle must also be waged by applying force and compulsion. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident. View quote
J. G. Ballard
You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque. View quote
Gore Vidal