#propaganda

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#belief #better #better future #blessed #death

I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different. ↗

— Frank Miller

#everyone #facts #forth #frame #i

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

— Harold Pinter

#easy #mocked #propaganda #work

The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions. ↗

— Karl Radek

#agitation #also #bring #class #economic

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#because #class #danger #deep #deep desire

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify. ↗

— Elihu Root

#aim #argument #causes #conduct #creating

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. ↗

— Steig Larsson

#classical #detective #detective stories #entertainment #light

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy. ↗

— Mark Poster

#attention #dangerous #deflect #effective #enemy

The more we die, the stronger we will become ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#propaganda

The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook. ↗

— George Seldes

#media #propaganda #truth #propaganda