Quotes About Propaganda Posters

#1. 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

#2. I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

Jack Steinberger

#3. Grief is like any other kind of pain. No matter how intense or how constant it is, time takes the edge from it. It may not fade, but it loses its sharpness. It becomes the new normal, and eventually steps aside and makes room in the mind for other things.

Joseph R. Lallo

#4. Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.

Rudy Giuliani

#5. A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

H.L. Mencken

#6. All of us, ultimately, we're not that interesting, when it comes down to it.

Morrissey

#7. I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.

Ben Shahn

#8. [The POUM] posters, designed for a wider public (posters are important in Spain, with its large illiterate population).

George Orwell

#9. It was black-black, so thick it drank two containers of relaxer at the salon, so full it took hours under the hooded dryer, and, when finally released from pink plastic rollers, sprang free and full, flowing down her back like a celebration. Her father called it a crown of glory.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#10. Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is using it, is always reactionary.

Friedrich Ebert

#11. The propagandist must utilize all of the technical means at his disposal - the press, radio, TV, movies, posters, meetings, door-to-door canvassing ... There is no propaganda as long as one makes use, in a sporadic fashion and at random, of a newspaper article here, a poster or radio program there.

Jacques Ellul