Propaganda Quotes

"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."
-Avram Noam Chomsky

"We have made the Reich by propaganda."
-Joseph Paul Goebbels

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
-George Orwell

"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."
-John F. Kennedy

"Propping Up of Racist Propaganda."
-Christopher Columbus

"If this country is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth but not health."
-Adelle Davis

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."
-George W. Bush

"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."
-Eric Hoffer

"Maybe my parents were concerned that radio and TV would bring in IRA propaganda music and rebel songs to our house."
-Tim Reilly

"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."
-Adolf Hitler

"This is a desperate propaganda ploy, an attempt to link Sept. 11 to the war in Iraq."
-Adam Eidinger

"Textbooks are Soviet propaganda."
-Jerry Falwell

"This sort of military propaganda will definitely give them (those seeking tougher action) more ammunition to level more accusations against Iran that Iran is under a military minded government and leadership."
-Mahmoud Alinejad

"What the insurgency is about is not a mystery. It's not a puzzle. They're not hiding it. They're broadcasting it. Let's try to understand it politically, rather than simply have [our] own preconceptions and dismiss it as propaganda."
-Rob Malley

"Propaganda as an art form is kind of funny. Golf is funny. It just put a smile on my face."
-Danny Roberts

"It was one of the main gripes of the early civil rights movement and the NAACP, ... It was the major battle that they fought, because this was major propaganda."
-Bruce Tyler

"He got into some hot water but I think his critics made much more about that than was warranted, ... I don't think it was a major issue and he maybe overstated his case and apologized. He caught enormous heat because there is an enormous propaganda machine out there always ready to grind. And he got ground up in it."
-John Jackson

"[Describing the Internet statement from the Islamist militant group as] disgusting propaganda, ... We have no reports of any deaths."
-Steven Boylan

"Thinly disguised propaganda urging women to be decorative, toe the line and marry (rich)."
-Anna Johnson

"All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that."
-Terry Eagleton

"Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship."
-William Blum

"When it talks about education, it depicts a normal educational process, where children in Cuba are subjected to propaganda and Communist indoctrination."
-Frank Bolanos

"Cold War propaganda contributed to their being largely overlooked from the Anglo-American perspective. We always have focused on the atomic attacks, which for us represented the definitive blow."
-Nigel Steel

"It's the difference between art and propaganda or quality entertainment and propaganda. I'm not interested in convincing. The pulpit in churches is for that purpose. The pulpit for politicians is for that purpose. It doesn't belong in movies."
-Scott Derrickson

"The Central Propaganda Department must have instructed the media who can report this news and who cannot. It's all been centrally arranged. Certainly the New China News Agency Web site only posted the story after receiving instructions from the propaganda department."
-Yu Guoming

"This is just corporate propaganda created by CEOs who want a get out of jail free card for corporate negligence."
-Chris Mather

"There is now an unstoppable wave of demands for more freedom of expression and resistance to the old propaganda policies."
-Jiao Guobiao

"Against me Berlusconi is using the Nazi propaganda tactics of Goebbels: slander, slander and some of it will stick."
-Piero Fassino