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Propaganda Quotes

How messaging shapes what people believe.

These propaganda quotes include a striking firsthand account of Russian state television offering only one real channel, alongside a filmmaker's stated refusal to turn movies into vehicles for social messaging. See our Art quotes too.

They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.

Quotes by Johann Most

There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

Quotes by Jim Fowler

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

Quotes by Jerry Falwell

We're learning a tremendous amount of propaganda from television and the Internet.

Quotes by James McBride

Terrorists, in ungoverned spaces, disseminate poisonous propaganda and training materials to attract troubled souls around the world to their cause.

Quotes by James Comey

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

Quotes by Jacques Ellul

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

Quotes by Jacques Ellul

I don't know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn't come to me through the filter of the West and its propaganda.

Quotes by Hugo Chavez

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

Quotes by Henry A. Wallace

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

Quotes by Harold Pinter

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Quotes by Hannah Arendt

The Obama administration leaks classified information continuously. They do it to glorify the President, or manipulate public opinion, or even to help produce a pre-election propaganda film about the Osama bin Laden raid.

Quotes by Glenn Greenwald

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

Quotes by Gertrude Stein

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.

Quotes by Gerald R. Ford

Much of the international unease with the Sochi Games has focused on the threat of terrorism, Putin's domestic repressiveness, and the Russian campaign of anti-gay propaganda.

Quotes by George Packer

The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

Quotes by Evgeny Morozov

For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and...

Quotes by Ernst Zundel

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Quotes by Eric Hoffer

The pro-gun propaganda peddled by the National Rifle Association feeds myths about gun ownership, and these myths arguably perpetuate the suffering of thousands of Americans each year.

Quotes by Emma Gonzalez

Frequently Asked Questions

What historical perspective appears in these propaganda quotes?
One offers a firsthand account of Russian television having effectively one real channel, with the other simply redirecting viewers back to state messaging.
Do any of these quotes discuss film and propaganda?
Yes, one filmmaker states clearly they never want their films to become vehicles for social propaganda, preferring to make documentaries if that were the actual goal.
Is there a quote comparing propaganda across political systems?
One draws a sharp comparison, describing propaganda's function in a democracy as equivalent to a bludgeon's function in a totalitarian state.
Does this topic mention religion or atheism?
One quote references a program built around spreading atheist messaging as an inherent part of its mission, showing the word applied to belief systems as well as politics and media.
What topic pairs well with propaganda quotes?
Our Art quotes connect naturally, especially around the tension between creative work and being used to deliver a message.

One quote memorably compares propaganda's role in democracy to a bludgeon's role under totalitarian rule. Pair this with our American or Believe quotes.