472 Quotes About Propaganda

Thus all art is propaganda and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda. But I do care when propaganda is confined to one side while the other is stripped and silent.

When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.

De las radios de los cafés salían las palabras del presidente, que prometía una lucha encarnizada contra los enemigos de la República. Satlán poseía una voz hermosa y masculina que cautivaba a los árabes. La radio era su caja mágica. Con más de ochenta por ciento de analfabetos, la oposición carecía de la mejor oportunidad. Quien domina la radio tiene al pueblo de su parte.

Задача политика, - говорит Джордж Бернард Шоу, - заключается в том, чтобы с математической точностью выражать волю народа".

Propaganda, if too raucous, will always prove counterproductive. The damage arises because in peacetime the nation that never stops menacing others and shouting grievances is at once labelled a disturber of the peace and blamed accordingly. Such behaviour is also stupid because it continually remind others of the quarrel and strengthens their opposition.

No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and cliches and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.

We're the propaganda monkeys.The digital download junkies.The skunk smoking geezersWith an inflatable Jesus.We're the kitsch and cool.Divide and rule.

We're told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It's possible that our puffed-up, prideful intelligence has outstripped our instinct for survival and the road back to safety has already been washed away. In which case there's nothing much to be done. If there is something to be done, then one thing is for sure: those who created the problem will not be the ones who come up with a solution.

A country which accepts wars as contests between good and evil is suffering from the delusion that the morality play symbolizes real political conflicts.