472 Quotes About Propaganda

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.

The history written, taught, and sworn to as ‘the unvarnished truth’ by the establishment—any establishment, left or right, conservative or liberal, capitalist or socialist or fascist—is generally revisionist, narrow in perspective, monolithic, and agenda-driven. In the worst case, it consists of one part denial and one part propaganda—in other words, a self-serving pack of lies.

Since the dawn of time, warring combatants have regularly reached for what support they could find to nerve their own side for battle.

Inventive rhetoric is characteristic of true believers.

Nationalism is pimped-out bigotry, designed to provoke a Stockholm Syndrome in the livestock.

..I'm just talking crazy...

Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them.

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

[The POUM] posters, designed for a wider public (posters are important in Spain, with its large illiterate population).