472 Quotes About Propaganda

Some events are accidents … only to some people … who do not know some facts.

Truth is not determined by the number of people telling it or willing to admit to it.

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

It's okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung.

Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.

The role of capitalist ideology is not to make an explicit case for something in the way that propaganda does, but to conceal the fact that the operations of capital do not depend on any sort of subjectively assumed belief. It is impossible to conceive of fascism or Stalinism without propaganda - but capitalism can proceed perfectly well, in some ways better, without anyone making a case for it.

I will never understand why a country that engages in the propaganda of the ‘Greatest Nation On Earth’ blatantly mistreats its disabled workers.