Propaganda Quotations

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

I didn't have a manifesto. I had some discontent. It seemed to me that midcentury mainstream American science fiction had often been triumphalist and militaristic, a sort of folk propaganda for American exceptionalism.

Western media present events in Russia in a thoroughly negative light. Yes, we have problems, and these need to be covered. But the fact remains that there is a propaganda campaign being waged against Russia. And this is disturbing.

I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.

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

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

We worry a lot about ISIS traveling overseas from Syria to the United States, but I think one of the greatest fears are those already within the U.S. who are being radicalized and inspired by the ISIS propaganda that's out there on the Internet.

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

I don't know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and environmental work. I just want to do good.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.

The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

I think sometimes we underestimate just how vulnerable Israel is on the public-relations front. That's why they spend so much money on propaganda. And that's why they panic every time they feel like they're losing the propaganda war.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.

Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.

I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.

I'm not really sure what gay propaganda is.

All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.

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

One basis for society is that of helping your neighbor -- but in the software world this is piracy. To prevent this, the U.S. is putting in place practices which are like those in the former Soviet Union -- computerized guards, propaganda in favor of licensing, rewards for informing on co-workers, and penalties which make distributing software as serious a crime as armed robbery.

My activities are not for publicity or propaganda or even to confer joy on others! They are for conferring joy primarily on Me!

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

Nuclear research will go on, and threats, propaganda and bullying will not affect us.

Neither spin nor propaganda will do. And what the studies show is what's needed is a radical transformation of American foreign policy

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

I appeal to the people of Jammu and Kashmir to participate actively and in large numbers in the elections and thereby demolish the motivated propaganda being conducted from across the border,

China's move showed serious disrespect for Taiwan. The two sides haven't started negotiations on the panda offer but China, through propaganda manipulation, made it seem like Taiwan is sure to receive the gift.

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.

The purpose of these broadcasts is not to beam anti-government propaganda into Iran. Rather, this new service would provide more detailed, factual reporting on political, social and foreign policy issues affecting Iran.

Historically, propaganda has always merged with recruitment because people must first be conditioned to become soldiers and fight strangers in distant lands. It's not a natural condition but must be manipulated to get people to join unpopular realities.

It is good that these terrorists are now facing justice, but in the reporting of the case, it would be helpful if the media didn't help them with their propaganda mission by unquestioningly repeating false information about their detention.

I saw the letter Tuesday morning and I was really touched. I feel that the voice of these people really represents the true opinion of the general public and inner party personnel ... I hope their letter will result in the improvement of work practices at the Propaganda Department.

Over the last half-century, anti-Semitism has been the essential theology of the Arab world. The Arabs have wasted trillions in oil royalties on weapons of war and propaganda . . . In their flight from reason, they have failed to modernize or civilize their societies, to introduce democracy, or to consolidate the rule of law.

Linux vs. Windows TCO studies are great business for analysts and wicked sales propaganda for companies, but I don't think high-tech vendors or their customers should take much stock in them.

It has become the propaganda venue of choice, ... It allows Klansmen who a few years ago could reach only 100 people with a poorly produced pamphlet to reach an audience in the millions.

The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with minimal effect on civilians. Technical documents give a different picture.

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.

Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.

Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.

To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.

The truth is the best propaganda.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

Unfortunately, propaganda works.

The media—stenographers to power.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

Unfortunately a shadow is falling over Sepp Herberger. It shouldn't be overlooked that he let his national team take part in a Nazi propaganda film in 1941. He let himself become part of the Nazi propaganda.

There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That's not necessarily true and hasn't been true for a very long time. And certainly there were those instances when singers were told they need to fit into a certain size dress. Of course, women. Men? They just make the costume bigger.

This White House has a knack for evading prosecution. The only way for justice to be served is for thousands to stand up and demand that charges stick against an administration that has set aside more than a quarter billion dollars to push propaganda on the public.

As sure as the tide comes in, communities will integrate. It is only propaganda that will stop it.

As I said, we had acquired some aircraft, and the same propaganda team, Guatemalan propaganda team, prepared leaflets, which were in several phases.

Contrary to the misleading propaganda many of you have received over the past years, credible and reliable research show vouchers and tuition tax credit programs do nothing to improve public school performance overall, and in fact, often result in a decline in school and student performance.

Currently there are propaganda efforts underway by Darwinists to try and persuade people into thinking promoting critical thinking about evolution is somehow bad for students and science education.

Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft and through a tremendous level of effort toward propaganda - to present an image of Reagan that is so much larger-than-life that it sort of blinds us all, and keeps us all in a warm, happy, nostalgic state, thinking of a man who can do no wrong.

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.

Propaganda doesn't serve the truth. Cambodians and foreigners should be educated about the tragic past but publicity like this is not necessary. Scientific explanation does more to help people understand.

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

During my last night in captivity, my captors forced me to participate in a propaganda video.

An element of the general strategy employed by the organizers of the terrorist acts was to unleash a wide information and propaganda attack against Uzbekistan involving international human rights organizations.

A vital part of the effort in Iraq is to win the battle for hearts and minds, ... The use of this weapon may technically have been legal, but its effects are such that it will hand a propaganda victory to the insurgency.

You must not kill your neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism

thinly disguised propaganda urging women to be decorative, toe the line and marry (rich).

This has become the greatest propaganda tool that exists for recruiting of terrorists around the world, and it is unnecessary to be in that position, ... This Week.

They're talking about turning the studios into a propaganda machine for the government, and that's wrong.

They think we are propaganda for democracy. They want to shut us up. But they can't shut me up,

They try, of course, to justify their illegal and discriminatory approach under the guise of the nonproliferation concern, the concern that we all share. The biased, exaggerated and unjustified propaganda is being disseminated around the peaceful nuclear program of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Although its name mockingly evokes delusions of totalitarian grandeur, Planet Propaganda approaches a diverse range of media with commonsense thinking and carefree creative energy.

There's a perfect example of liberal ideology -- a principal who has no idea what left-wing propaganda is being spewed by someone who supports lawbreakers.

At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.

according to a letter from the GAO to the Department of Education. ''This violated the publicity or propaganda prohibition.

It's a question of the people using it, not the technology itself. Any technology can be used for good or ill for propaganda purposes or for edification purposes.

First of all, Jessica Lynch deserves all the treatment that she is getting. She was a victim of Iraq, and the Army built around her this caricature of American bravado. They said she was shot and stabbed and shot to the last bullet, and she did not say that, and that did not happen. But they sought to use her as a propaganda tool for American bravado.

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.

It's almost like we need to brainwash ourselves to listen to what's really happening and not just to the propaganda and what the press shows us.

It's like they are embedding combat camera units, who are there on the front line with them, knowing they are going to have propaganda value in time to come.

It's really those two things in concert, a propaganda campaign in the media followed up by information gathering, that has caused alarm.

It was never about getting rid of weapons. It was about propaganda to justify continuing sanctions until Saddam could be removed from power.

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

The new generation of Islamist militants realized long ago that Al-Qaeda is no match for the United States and its allies. But the militants clearly have an edge in the propaganda battle, a crucial component of the 'war on terror'.

The message is the kind of boastful propaganda we've heard before, but I wouldn't dismiss it as bluster.

Their propaganda is often unintentionally hilarious and I couldn't find an existing searchable database of the KCNA on the Web. Thus, NK News was born,

I have rewritten Elizabethan history. The Virgin Queen was a myth created by the Tudor propaganda machine that was copied uncritically by the vast majority of historians in the following centuries.

He's too close - he lived well into the 20th Century, ... If you look at Thomas Jefferson and presidents and Robert E. Lee and many other southerners ... They haven't been damaged. No one is going to purge Thomas Jefferson or George Washington as slave owners ... Griffith has been knocked down for propaganda - he's closer to the 20th Century. America would have a trauma if it had to purge and get rid of its founding fathers that were slave owners.

Childhood trauma, poor self-image, anger at men, poor relationships with either or both parents, and pro-homosexual media propaganda are several key elements in women developing an attraction to other women.

You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists sites, and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters, because they want to create a war between us.

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