Propaganda quotes
120 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The Republican Party can lead any person to believe that their promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth."
"The American people are free to do exactly what they are told."
"Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything."
"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda."
"All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda."
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"The mother tongue is propaganda."
"That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything."
"You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him."
"History is fables agreed upon."
"There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment."
"Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence."
"All great art and literature is propaganda."
"All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth."
"All art is propaganda."
"All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art."
"The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions."
"Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent."
"Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts."
"Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across.""
"The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy."
"The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas."
"Propaganda is necessary only for the sake of money!"
"Given all of the anti-Muslim propaganda that's being disseminated by The American Nazi media, you have to be careful. It can stress you out."
"There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it."
"Could you do a liberal propaganda tool that would bore the bejesus out of people? No."
