“ The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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“ A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. ”
- Gerald R. Ford- Copy
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“ Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
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“ Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking. ”
- William Mather Lewis- Copy
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“ Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. ”
- Noam Chomsky- Copy
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“ Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent. ”
- Adolf Hitler- Copy
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“ The message is the kind of boastful propaganda we've heard before, but I wouldn't dismiss it as bluster. ”
- Paul Wilkinson- Copy
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“ Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
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“ I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it. ”
- Keith Haring- Copy
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“ Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. ”
- Jean Anouilh- Copy
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“ Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see Paradise as Hell; and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as Paradise. ”
- Adolf Hitler- Copy
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“ Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ”
- Frances Cornford- Copy
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“ A propagandist is a specialist in selling attitudes and opinions. ”
- Hans Speier- Copy
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“ See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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“ Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. ”
- James B. Conant- Copy
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“ The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid. ”
- Adolf Hitler- Copy
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“ Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others. ”
- Elizabeth Drew- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Phyllis Schlafly- Copy
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“ In the end we beat them with Levi 501 jeans. Seventy-two years of Communist indoctrination and propaganda was drowned out by a three-ounce Sony Walkman. A huge totalitarian system has been brought to its knees because nobody wants to wear Bulgarian shoes… ”
- Gandhi- Copy
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“ All propaganda or popularization involves a puting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that. ”
- Terry Eagleton- Copy
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“ Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing. ”
- Marshall McLuhan- Copy
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