472 Quotes About Propaganda

La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas.

W.E.B. Du Bois called such erasure [of the first arrival of enslaved Africans to America] the propaganda of history. "It is propaganda like this that has led men in the past to insist that history is 'lies agreed upon'; and to point out the danger in such misinformation," he wrote in his influential treatise Black Reconstruction (1935). Du Bois argued that America had falsified the fact of its history "because the nation was ashamed.

When the past threatens to ambush you in the present, change the past.

They wanted to forget that there ever had been, in Europe, any other civilization at all. There was so much beauty they had not made, so many books they had not written, so many records of wars in which they had not fought, and so many ideas of human behavior which were anathema to them.

This is Chronos devouring his sons. The last makerof history swallows all previous history down.- The Adventures of the Day-Self in the Age of the Machines

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

History is dramatic license, covertly-financed with a sprinkling of gold dust from the newly-enthroned.

Who was right?" Hitler asked at a rally in 1937. "The visionary or the others? - I was right.

Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust?Very nearly everyone, come to think of it...