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• 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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• I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

  James Thurber

  Running, Believe, Men

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• It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  People, Tasks, Easier

  Herbert M. Shelton (1993). “Getting Well”, p.137, Health Research Books

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• The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a ‘case’, obscuring the opponent’s point of view and avoiding awkward questions.

  George Orwell

  War, Views, Opponents

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: My country right or left, 1940-1943”

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• In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.

  George Orwell

  Country, Freedom Of Speech, Helpful

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• The media—stenographers to power.

  Amy Goodman

  Media

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• I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? "Axis of Evil"? Come on. "A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain" is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.

  John Waters

  Powerful, Hate, Ocean

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.34, Macmillan

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• Health makes good propaganda.

  Naomi Wolf

  Fashion Industry

  "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women". Book by Naomi Wolf, October 24, 1991.

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• Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or in due time by the International Criminal Court of those who have engaged in aggression and propaganda for war.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Punishment, Criminals

  "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.

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• I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

  Hillary Clinton

  Use, Revision, Manipulation

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• Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e

  George Bernard Shaw

  School, Agency, Principles

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• What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Sex, Children, Childhood

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• 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

  Believe, Views, Differences

  Edward L. Bernays (2015). “Crystallizing Public Opinion”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system.

  Edward S. Herman

  Military, Effectiveness, Numbers

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• We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Principles, Deeds, Form

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• 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 word "councelor of public relations".

  Edward Bernays

  War, Trying, United States

  "The Century of the Self". Documentary, 2002.

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• There are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.

  Warren E. Burger

  Long, Risk, Speech

  "Open The System, Don't Close It" by Edward H. Crane, www.cnn.com. November 25, 1996.

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• To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Winning, People, Being True

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• As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.

  Bertrand Russell

  Civilization, Return, Lovers

  Bertrand Russell, Ray Perkins (Jr.) (2002). “Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor”, p.33, Open Court Publishing

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• The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda.

  Emma Goldman

  Color, Glowing, People

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• The truth is the best propaganda.

  Adolf Hitler

  Truth Is

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• Nobody wants to know a colored woman's opinion about her own status of that of her group. When she dares express it, no matter how mild or tactful it may be, it is called 'propaganda,' or is labeled 'controversial.' Those two words have come to have a very ominous sound to me.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Two, Black, Want

  Mary Church Terrell (1986). “A Colored Woman in a White World”

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• They [NPR] are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any other point of view. They don't even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive.

  Roger Ailes

  Attitude, Wings, Npr

  "NPR Is 'Left Wing Of Nazism' Says Fox News Chairman". The Daily Beast Interview, www.businessinsider.com. November 18, 2010.

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• The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

  Shane Smith

  Citizens, Conspiracy, Coups

  "Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice - it's within my grasp'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.

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• All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks - We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because we don’t have the Koch brothers. It takes a different kind of capital to fight that stuff.

  DJ Spooky

  Brother, Fighting, Different

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