One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
George Orwell
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky
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
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
Terrorism is in good part an effect of government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.
Mark Poster
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
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
The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.
Edward Bernays
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
Martin Buber
In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use.
Dr. Sara Murray Jordan
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth.
Jacques Ellul
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.
Jacques Ellul