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• I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different.

  Frank Miller

  New York, Thinking, Views

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• It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

  George Orwell

  War, Fighting, Soldier

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.

  Jon Voight

  Peace, Hysteria, Vietnam

  "VOIGHT: My concerns for America". www.washingtontimes.com. July 28, 2008.

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• There was an intervention of the foreign states in the Russian Far East, Archangel of the West border of Russia. The foreign troops were participating in the attempts to stamp out the revolution. It's not just propaganda, because there are mounds of documents in the archives relating to these events and to the foreign espionage cases.

  Vladimir Semichastny

  Russia, Kgb, Events

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• Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it happens too quick. I think the historical background that build into our genes is different. American people has never been occupied. The deep sadness and sentimentality, the cultural background that relates to melodrama that we relate to and grow up with, the propaganda, I didn't imagine the difference is so big. It's a very interesting cultural phenomenon.

  Ang Lee

  Growing Up, Sadness, Thinking

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• Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

  Criss Jami

  Compassion, Auto Tune, Gossip

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.80, Criss Jami

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• You know, what's interesting about Washington...It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second-nature.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Interesting, Guessing

  George W. Bush's Remarks at Presentation of Commander-In-Chief's Trophy, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 17, 2002.

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• In contrast, the 'Old Europe' channels were showing film from reporters who had embedded themselves at the wrong end of the Baghdad blitz and the Basra bombardment. These films depicted the shattered homes, the killed and grieving civilians and the infrastructure chaos our armed forces are creating daily. Since this footage (none of it bearing the al-Jazeera logo) clearly exists, why does the Western media studiously ignore it or, when confronted by it, claim it to be Iraqi propaganda.

  David Walker

  Home, Grieving, Usa

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• The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.

  Ayn Rand

  Nails, Coffins, Economics

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.281, Penguin

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• Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.

  Pablo Antonio Cuadra

  Truth, Reality, Roots

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• All photography is propaganda.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Photograph

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• All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, Vocabulary, Lasts

  "Pacifism and Philosophy" by Aldous Huxley, 1936.

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• Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

  Martin Parr

  Glamorous

  "The foibles of the world". Article by Benjamin Secher, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 27, 2011.

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• With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called the Public, the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Family, Baby, Sweet

  Wyndham Lewis (1926). “The Art of Being Ruled”

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• It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In fact, the major media more resembles a propaganda machine than it does a free press.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Freedom, Independent, Media

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• An unconscious people, an indoctrinated people, a people fed only partisan information and opinion that confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical. And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind of orthodoxy can kill us, too.

  Bill Moyers

  Lying, Fighting, Media

  Bill Moyers (2008). “Moyers on Democracy”, p.218, Anchor

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• The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as "to direct the thought of most of the world" - primarily progressive American intellectuals, who had to be mobilized to come to the aid of Britain during World War I.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Agency, Tasks

  "How the Magna Carta became a Minor Carta, part 1" by Noam Chomsky, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2012.

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• A past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back....The nation's marketplace of ideas is being poisoned by a propaganda company so blatant that Tokyo Rose would've quit....As with all the other nefariousness and slime of this, our worst presidency since James Buchanan, he [President Bush] is having it done for him, by proxy. Thus, the sandbag effort by Fox News Friday afternoon.

  Keith Olbermann

  Friday, Past, Ideas

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• Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as wildly individualistic and unbearably bright.

  Dallas Willard

  Powerful, Thinking, Intellectual

  Dallas Willard (2012). “Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God”, p.283, InterVarsity Press

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• The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Special, Use, Literature

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• All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.

  George Orwell

  Art, Hands, Art Is

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• As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.

  Gore Vidal

  Election Time, Action, Language

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.52, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Country, Men, Jail

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• My view is Fox News is a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party and I don't comment on Fox News.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Views, News

  "Howard Dean Calls Fox News A 'Propaganda Outlet For The Republican Party'". ABC, www.adweek.com. June 12, 2005.

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