Propaganda Quotes - Page 18

• Advertising is the voice of capital. We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it. The fight against hyper-commercialism becomes especially pronounced in the era of digital communications.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Communication, Fighting, Voice

  "If You Like FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd and Van Jones, You'll Love Free Press Co-Founder Robert McChesney" by Seton Motley, www.newsbusters.org. November 5, 2009.

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• The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.

  Thomas Szasz

  Battle, World, Definitions

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• Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

  Harold Evans

  Tyrants, People, Mind

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• There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false propaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.

  Jimmy Carter

  Mass Destruction, Tyrants, Iraq

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• The nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as much as on the front. Minds must be kept loyal and at the right pitch of hate, so that successive drafts of fighters are accepted without murmurings. Letters and newspapers must be censored while the propaganda mill grinds on. As for decisions of strategy and overall command, they must please many masters: dissenters in the cabinet, the heads of the allied states and public opinion. Hence failures must be disguised or concealed.

  Jacques Barzun

  Hate, Tyrants, People

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• Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.

  Walter Lippmann

  Order, Tyrants, Events

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.

  Paul Valery

  Men, Equality, People

  Regards sur le Monde Actuel (1931)

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• I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

  Nat King Cole

  Usa, America, Proud

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• we're too great a nation to allow the evil-doers to affect our soul and our spirit.

  George W. Bush

  Soul, President, Nations

  George W. Bush Launches Online American Relief and Response Effort, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 18, 2001.

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• There will be no going back to the era before September the 11th, 2001 - to false comfort in a dangerous world.

  George W. Bush

  Dangerous World, September 11, President

  George W. Bush's Addresses the Nation, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 7, 2003.

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• The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, People

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

  Eric Hoffer

  Guilty, Reason, Feels

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.

  Frank Rich

  Criminals, Hollywood, Lows

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• Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Truth Is, Should, Precious Things

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• The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men? What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Men

  1931 Speech,18 Mar. Rudyard Kipling, Baldwin's cousin, is alleged to be the original author of this famous phrase. Harold Macmillan claimed that the Duke of Devonshire (his father-in-law) responded 'Good God, that's done it, he's lost us the tarts.'

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• The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

  Walter Lippmann

  Book, People, Office

  1920 Liberty and the News,'What Modern Liberty Means'.

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• I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Voice, Stupidity

  1941 In the Partisan Review,15 Apr. Reprinted in Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, vol.2.

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• Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.

  Walter Bagehot

  Country, Intellectual, Doubt

  Walter Bagehot (1879). “Literary Studies: Edward Gibbon (1856) Bishop Butler (1854) Sterne and Thackeray (1864) The Waverley novels (1858) Charles Dickens (1858) Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1856) Béranger (1857) Mr. Clough's poems (1862) Henry Crabb Robinson (1869) Wordsworth, T”

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• The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.

  Arthur Balfour

  Atmosphere, Climate, Belief

  Arthur James Balfour (1895). “The Foundations of Belief: Being Notes Introductory to the Study of Theology”

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• That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.

  Lindsey Buckingham

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• What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

  Fatou Bensouda

  Powerful, People, Focus

  "Fatou Bensouda: “We Are Not Against Africa”". Interview with Mercy Eze, newafricanmagazine.com. September 11, 2012.

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• Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Media, Care

  Song: It's Alright, Ma, Album: Bringing All Back Home, 1965

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• I think there's something unfortunate about the attention that performers get in our media, but the weight of government propaganda is so heavy that anyone with a different point of view who has access to the media has a responsibility to use it.

  David Clennon

  Responsibility, Thinking, Views

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• The cultural propaganda embodied in two liquor advertisements, "Living well is the best revenge" and "Sip it with arrogance," have a curious, perhaps demonic appeal. Consumerism indeed has its own spirituality.

  Brennan Manning

  Revenge, Two, Arrogance

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• There is a system of terroristic states-the real terror network-that has spread throughout Latin America and elsewhere over the past several decades, and which is deeply rooted in the corporate interest and sustaining political-military-financial propaganda mechanisms of the United States and its allies in the Free World.

  Edward S. Herman

  Latin, Military, Real

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