Propaganda Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• Propaganda rarely makes good art.

  Susan Sutherland Isaacs

  Art, Good Art

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• The evil of the Holocaust was realized through the exercise of a certain kind of power - coercive power. It was a power that sought to dominate and control. It was a power legitimated through law, buttressed by propaganda, augmented by terror, and affected through all the institutions of society.

  Mary Jo Leddy

  Exercise, Law, Evil

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• For me, Twitter is a public persona. It's UbuWeb or Kenneth Goldsmith (as opposed to Kenny Goldsmith). I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion (what can you really say in 140 characters?), but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Character, Tools, Use

  "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 15, 2014.

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• What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality - the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all of psychotherapy.

  Brock Chisholm

  Civilization, America, Morality

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• If reading becomes a bore, mental death is on the way. Children taught to read by tedious mechanical means rapidly learn to skim over the dull text without bothering to delve into its implications -- which in time will make them prey to propaganda and to assertions based on scanty evidence, or none.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Reading, Mean

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• I have sworn upon the altar of god.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Government, Faith Religion

  Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800

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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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• The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

  H. L. Mencken

  Intelligent, Unintelligent

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• The task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses toward certain facts, events, necessities, etc., the purpose being to move their importance into the masses' field of vision.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Moving, Training

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated”

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• Why, of course, the people don't want war.

  Hermann Goring

  War, Communist Leaders, Political Will

  Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.

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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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• 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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• It is propaganda that people, who had lived a full life of heterosexuality, were married and had children, were denying their real sexuality all that time. There is historic evidence that entire populations can convert to homosexuality under certain conditions.

  Ali Sina

  Children, Real, People

  Source: myislam.dk

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• I would hope that wherever I go I bring good news - that's what that word means, right? It began with the first followers of Jesus taking a Roman military propaganda term and co-opting it for their own subversive purposes, insisting that the world isn't made better through coercive military violence but through sacrificial love. How great is that!? Unfortunately this word has been hijacked in several years for other purposes but no worries, we're taking it back.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Military, Mean

  Source: missionaryrenegade2013.blogspot.com

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• There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda.

  Wole Soyinka

  Writing, Special, Doe

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the TV watcher to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US . . .

  Robin Cook

  Country, War, Believe

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• We have been brainwashed by school, indoctrinated by industrial propaganda, and mesmerized by the popular media into believing that compliance is not only safe but right and necessary.

  Seth

  Believe, School, Media

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• Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

  John Osborne

  Fear, Self, Censorship

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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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• If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.

  Paul Johnson

  Religious, Believe, Political

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• Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian.

  Art Spiegelman

  Fascists, Pernicious

  Source: www.esquire.com

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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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