Quotes about Propaganda
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
— Hilaire Belloc
I heard that after you throw away a 'New York Times,' it takes over a hundred years for the lies to biodegrade.
— Stephen Colbert
The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despot's dread of a newspaper that laughs.
— Mark Twain
There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
— William James
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end.
— Heinrich Heine
Propaganda is when a viewpoint is promoted regardless of truth. Art is when truth is rendered regardless of agenda.
— Steven James
Newspapers of the future, to be conducted successfully, must be divorced from special privilege and relieved from the subsidy of advertising. They must cease to be organs of propaganda for the interests which patronize their advertising columns. The type of newspaper which publishes scandal and lewd pictures will eventually go the way of all forces which debauch the human mind. These
— Napoleon Hill
They made you believe you had power; they hammered at your brain over the barracks loudspeakers; they commanded you in the name of your country; and they gave you your share of guilt so you could not wash your hands of it but would be forever bound by ties of blood.
— Isabel Allende
Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.
— Albert Einstein
Terminological inexactitude
— Winston Churchill
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
— Will Rogers