Quotes About The Power Of Propaganda

#1. In my opinion turkey is the most over-rated critter for eating purposes in kingdom come but the most striking example we have of the power of propaganda.

Damon Runyon

#2. In statecraft, as in medicine, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use. The power of propaganda should never be discounted,

Ashwin Sanghi

#3. Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.

Randal Marlin

#4. The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the growth of corporate propaganda against democracy.

Alex Carey

#5. The evil of the Holocaust was realized through the exercise of a certain kind of power - coercive power. It was a power that sought to dominate and control. It was a power legitimated through law, buttressed by propaganda, augmented by terror, and affected through all the institutions of society.

Mary Jo Leddy

#6. But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

George Orwell

#7. You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense ... Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

Joseph Conrad

#8. The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)

Angelo Codevilla

#9. Power in society is achieved through control of the purse, pen, and politics.

Orrin Woodward

#10. Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such,

Hannah Arendt

#11. The more effective the chauvinistic propaganda, the easier it was to persuade public opinion of the necessity for a supranational structure which would rule from above and without national distinctions by a universal monopoly of power and the instruments of violence.

Hannah Arendt

#12. The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system.

Edward S. Herman

#13. All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Adolf Hitler

#14. Ethan thought he understood how a propaganda-stuffed young soldier must feel the first time in combat, stumbling by some sudden chance over his enemy's human face. He had gloried for a red moment in his power to break her. Now he stood foolishly with the pieces in his hands. Not at all heroic.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#15. New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.

Douglas Coop

#16. On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.

Gore Vidal

#17. It's only when journalists understand the role they play in this propaganda, it's only when they realize they can't be both independent, honest journalists and agents of power, that things will begin to change.

John Pilger

#18. The media - stenographers to power.

Amy Goodman

#19. Our capacity as human beings for imagination and storytelling makes us exquisitely vulnerable to exploitation by those who understand the properties of ideological power.

David Smail