Propaganda Quotes - page 2

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda... You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas. (Marshall McLuhan)
The mother tongue is propaganda. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. - May 24, 2005. View quote
George W. Bush
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
I am sick of deconstructing their propaganda, because it's pretty much the same as it's always been. It's just repeating something over and over again until we believe it and we hope that you believe it. View quote
Jon Stewart
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda. View quote
Upton Sinclair
Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy; it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda, whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence, so that when the crisis of an election comes, they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters. View quote
Upton Sinclair
We are deeply concerned about the situation in Russia with regards to human rights. There are several examples of this situation, such as the new law requiring NGOs to register as "foreign agents”, the law banning homosexual "propaganda”, problems with the rule of law and arbitrary judicial processes, and court rulings against the opposition. View quote
Cecilia Malmström
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
In the largest sense, every work of art is protest. ... A lullaby is a propaganda song and any three-year-old knows it. ... A hymn is a controversial song - sing one in the wrong church: you'll find out. ... View quote
Pete Seeger
I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group in the Labour Party which would serve my purpose best for propaganda along internationalist lines. (Norman Angell)
As elsewhere in his writing, Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, Romeo and Juliet, the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda. View quote
Martin Amis
I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda. View quote
Alan Alda
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. View quote
Terry Eagleton
Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve. View quote
Jacques Ellul
The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action. View quote
Jacques Ellul
Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality. View quote
Jacques Ellul
Having analyzed these traits, we can now advance a definition of propaganda - not an exhaustive definition, unique and exclusive of all others, but at least a partial one: Propaganda is a set of methods employed by an organized group that wants to bring about the active or passive participation in its actions of a mass of individuals, psychologically unified through psychological manipulations and incorporated in an organization. View quote
Jacques Ellul
Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments, and to integrate the individual into a technological world. View quote
Jacques Ellul
My view is FOX News is a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party and I don't comment on FOX News. View quote
Howard Dean
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of aggression which cowardice, disguised as morality, restrains in their more spontaneous forms. War has the same merit. You must not kill you neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism. (Bertrand Russell)
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that. View quote
Edward R. Murrow
Money doesn't talk, it swears Obscenity, who really cares Propaganda, all is phony. View quote
Bob Dylan
The main trouble with avant-garde art and literature, from the point of view of fascists and Stalinists, is not that they are too critical, but that they are too "innocent," that it is too difficult to inject effective propaganda, that kitsch is more pliable to this end. View quote
Clement Greenberg
When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words. So we found the words "counsel on public relations." View quote
Edward Bernays