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It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. Harry Browne

Truth War Truth Is First Propaganda Casualty Well Well Known Known Any Forsaken

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

Active Propaganda Mythical Longer Arouse Opinion Goal Modern Transform Belief

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction. John Boyd Orr

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. D. H. Lawrence

War Peace Imminent Propaganda Seem Makes Loud

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

Victory Defeat President Aim States Total All-Out Propaganda Attack Massive Him Waging Campaign Against Themselves Coalition Groups United United States

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

Be True Must Propaganda True Effective Believed Credible

We have seen the corrupting effects of a deliberate propaganda campaign driven by fake news. Jimmy Gomez

News Seen Fake News Propaganda Deliberate Driven Fake Campaign Effects

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite. John Berger

Some Propaganda Invariably Long-Term Interests Serve Elite

Lacking the direct test of success or failure, the voter tends to turn, not to those politicians whose measures have the best chance of success, but to those with the ability to 'sell' their propaganda. Without grasping logical chains of deduction, the average voter will never be able to discover the error that the ruler makes. Murray Rothbard

Success Best Failure Logical Will Politicians Ruler Those Ability Able Propaganda Direct Tends Never Voter Without Makes Test Discover Error Sell Lacking Turn Average Deduction Measures Grasping Chains Whose Chance

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail. Narendra Modi

Work Truth Prevail Me Will Become Otherwise Would Propaganda About Myths Clearer Feel Judged Am False Ultimately Many Last

As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East. Neil MacGregor

Long Beginning Gone Virtually Ran Indeed East Propaganda About Habit Wrote Contempt Said Misunderstanding How Affairs Edward Very Greek Middle Middle East Little Centuries Century Europe

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated. Paul Watzlawick

Secret Propaganda Totally Lay He Ideas Him Without Person Being Hold Wants The Secret Of Noticing Even Whom Saturate Saturated

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. Rita Mae Brown

Art Entertainment Passion Television Married Moral Propaganda Without

When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in 'The Darkest Minds,' I researched the Japanese internment camps here in the United States, specifically propaganda the government used, and how they capitalized on people's fears. Alexandra Bracken

Government People Darkest Fears Minds States Out Propaganda About How Go Camps Trying Japanese Might Creating Used Figure United United States Specifically Internment Here

At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk. Anthony Marra

Government TV Propaganda Journalism Between Line Often Manhattan

What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred. Antony Beevor

Change Hatred Ability Propaganda Through Contain Instinct Mass Terrifying Does Normal Very Human Which Much Necessarily

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad. Ayad Akhtar

Good Job Bad Propaganda Feel Offer Artist Whether

In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda posters. Such is the case in North Korea. Images of Kim Il-sung are depicted in vivid colours. Rays of yellow and orange emanate from his face: he is the sun. Barbara Demick

World Face Emanate Sun Kim Posters Vivid Propaganda Case Only Colour Colours He Rays Wrote Korea George His George Orwell Yellow North North Korea Orange Where Depicted Found Images Orwell

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't. Brad Holland

Art You Political Unlike Propaganda Cliches Which Agree Expresses

You think that the CNN hosts can aggressively challenge government officials? I don't think so. It doesn't look that way at all. And of course, when you get to Fox News, they're a whole different animal: they're purely propaganda. Cenk Uygur

I'm not really sure what gay propaganda is. Chris Pine

Gay Propaganda Sure Really

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda. Christopher Lasch

News Liberal Propaganda Advertising Another Represents Form

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