#propaganda

I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will). Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#aryans #demon #hitler #perspective #propaganda

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#news #newspapers #propaganda #men

I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls. ↗

— Paul Nash

#war #wwi #men

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#hands #hold #like #long #move

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. ↗

— William Blum

#dictatorship #propaganda #violence

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#soviet #textbooks

Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#class #class consciousness #class struggle #consciousness #general

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

— Brad Holland

#art #cliches #expresses #political #propaganda

If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem. ↗

— Brit Hume

#believe #believed #comes #competitors #kind

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

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#believed #credible #effective #must #propaganda