quotations about propaganda
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
H. L. MENCKEN
In Defense of Women
Language becomes propaganda not so much by its inherent structures and devices as by the ideology it champions. Propaganda is shameless advocacy.
NICHOLAS J. O'SHAUGHNESSY
Politics and Propaganda: Weapons of Mass Seduction
Truth will outlast any campaigns mounted against it, no matter how mighty, clever, or long. It is invincible. It's only a matter of which generation is willing to face it and, in so doing, protect future generations from ritual abuse.
CHRYSTINE OKSANA
Safe Passage to Healing
Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.
MICHAEL LANGFORD
Basic Photography
Because propaganda is pragmatic, when the social climate changes so do the propagandas, but not necessarily the propagandists.
BRIAN ANSE PATRICK
The Ten Commandments of Propaganda
The success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.
ALEX CAREY
Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
The Olive Tree
State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.
NOAM CHOMSKY
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed--if all records told the same tale--then the lie passed into history and became truth.
GEORGE ORWELL
1984
Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, however, if they happen to touch upon an issue of authentic concern, is no longer subject to their control and may easily produce consequences they never foresaw or intended.
HANNAH ARENDT
postscript to the revised edition, Eichmann in Jerusalem