Propagandist Quotes - Page 2

• I listened to Hillary [Clinton], and I heard the double talk. She's so good at it, and I'm not making this up, that the Communist Chinese have sent their cadres to study her speeches. They say she's the finest propagandist they've ever heard.

  Michael Savage

  Chinese, Speech, Study

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• Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.

  Aldous Huxley

  Powerful, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work.

  David Attenborough

  Animal, Trying, Interest

  "David Attenborough: 'I'm an essential evil'". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Trump has a clear goal: the division of Europe and the destruction of the European domestic market. The fact that Brexit propagandist Nigel Farage was the first European he received in his tower speaks volumes. That is why we must strengthen the European domestic market and work even more closely together in Europe. That is absolutely compulsory for Germany.

  Martin Schulz

  Europe, Clear Goals, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would only expose them to reflection, inquiry, and, very likely, ridicule. The proper procedure is to drill them home by constantly presupposing them, so that they become the very condition for discourse.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, Reflection, Target Audience

  Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman (2004). “Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda”, p.41, Pluto Press

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• Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a tragedian plays for tears. Theirs is a new art form, exclusive to America and bewilderingly successful. In place of traditional conservative ideology, they offer their audience partisan belligerence and a complete package of mail-order hatreds, designed for the conceptually and ethically impaired.

  Hal Crowther

  Art, Successful, Order

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• We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where their mouth is...We're being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.

  Helen Thomas

  Wall, White, Racism

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• The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Modern, Scientist

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• In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.

  Randal Marlin

  Goal, Way, Belief

  Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.99, Broadview Press

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• Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader.

  Randal Marlin

  Would Be, Exposure

  Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.91, Broadview Press

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• The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of the bulldog and the dismantling of the cheap villa, both of which are responsible for a deal of our contentment amid ugliness.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Country, League, Contentment

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• One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Groups, Given, Mass

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder”, p.92, Wildside Press LLC

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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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• We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.

  Horace Greeley

  Simple, Thinking, Names

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• All writers are propagandists.

  Derrick Jensen

  Derrick Jensen (2011). “Endgame, Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization”, p.18, Seven Stories Press

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• The newspaper is under fire for refusing to kowtow to left-wing word police and militant propagandists who demand unfettered illegal immigration. Last week, in the wake of angry protests against the publication, vandals threw paint bombs and spray-painted graffiti on its offices.

  Michelle Malkin

  Fire, Wings, Office

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• There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

  Mos Def

  Teacher, People, Leader

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This propaganda of dis-associating Western Negroes from Africa is not a new one. For many years white propagandists have been printing tons of literature to impress scattered Ethiopia, especially that portion within their civilization, with the idea that Africa is a despised place, inhabited by savages, and cannibals, where no civilized human being should go, especially black civilized human beings. This propaganda is promulgated for the cause that is being realized today. That cause is COLONIAL EXPANSION for the white nations of the world.

  Marcus Garvey

  Years, Civilization, Ideas

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.54, The Majority Press

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• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Cutting, Tasks

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Honest, Embedded

  Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian (2010). “Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World”, p.34, Macmillan

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• I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled and adept at it.

  Alexander Haig

  War, Thinking, World

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• The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

  Ludwig von Mises

  Liberty, Wrens, Needs

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• Despite his profound incompetence on many levels, Obama has been an adept propagandist who has blamed capitalism for problems caused and magnified by socialist remedies to justify further socialist solutions. He's now doing the same thing all over again as his new socialist solutions are failing.

  David Limbaugh

  Profound, Levels, Problem

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• I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Giving, Victory

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• Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.

  Gertrude Stein

  Lying, Believe, World

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.121, Random House

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