War Propaganda Sayings

#1. All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in subsituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly,those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

Aldous Huxley

#2. The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a 'case', obscuring the opponent's point of view and avoiding awkward questions.

George Orwell

#3. Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.

Margo Kingston

#4. All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

George Orwell

#5. Propaganda against war is itself a form of war propaganda.

Elie Halevy

#6. In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

Kate Adie

#7. The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct the thought of most of the world - primarily progressive American intellectuals, who had to be mobilized to come to the aid of Britain during World War I.

Noam Chomsky

#8. No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

Noam Chomsky

#9. For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations.

Ernst Zundel

#10. It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Douglas MacArthur

#11. NEVER allow the enemy to define your terms. If you want to win a war of propaganda, you must be able to manipulate language to expose the truth.

Jenifer Mohammed

#12. In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

Charles Lindbergh

#13. Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters.

Garry Kasparov

#14. Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

Douglas MacArthur

#15. The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

Jeannette Rankin

#16. The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.

Glenn Greenwald

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

Joseph Goebbels

#20. When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the words "public relations".

Edward Bernays

#21. The propaganda system allows the U.S. Ieadership to commit crimes without limit and with no suggestion of misbehavior or criminality; in fact, major war criminals like Henry Kissinger appear regularly on TV to comment on the crimes of the derivative butchers.

Edward S. Herman

#22. I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

Mark Boal

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

George Orwell

#24. Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable

Michael Haneke

#25. 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

#26. In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army.

Smedley D. Butler

#27. We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [ ... ]. All of this was part of a well-financed propaganda campaign on the part of British agents. As usual, the government of the United States was being "run" by the British Secret Intelligence Service.

Eustace Mullins

#28. You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.

Graham Hancock

#29. As time went on, the Communists and the POUM wrote more bitterly about one another than about the Fascists.

George Orwell

#30. Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust?
Very nearly everyone, come to think of it ...

Terry Pratchett

#31. When he won, it proved that God was on his side. When he didn't win, it meant that God wanted him to try harder.

P.J. Sullivan

#32. Another touchy point: the inability of successive Israeli governments to deal with the propaganda war. Israel has a brilliant instrument in the IDF. We have a cyber-war unit which may become the best unit in the world to fight cyber problems. On the propaganda war ... it is a large failure.

Manfred Gerstenfeld

#33. Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

John Pilger

#34. When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.

George Orwell

#35. The insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older, namely as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

Hannah Arendt

#36. But one thing is certain, he is the master criminal of this age. He controls a marvellous organization. Most of the Peace propaganda during the war was originated and financed by him.

Agatha Christie

#37. Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

D.H. Lawrence

#38. Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.

Henry Rollins

#39. How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

Howard Zinn

#40. I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography.

Henry V. O'Neil

#41. As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal of Soviet propaganda here in the United States, but it was clumsy, and it was anchored to a lot of ideological support in certain circles in America itself.

Alexander Haig

#42. One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Douglas MacArthur

#43. Propaganda - a war of words. Diplomacy - words of peace.

Ted Agon

#44. The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory.

Mao Zedong

#45. We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.

Walter Lippmann

#46. Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

Adolf Hitler

#47. I would add entertainment media cheerleader Wolf Blitzer, CNN's Pentagon sycophant in Kuwait City, a representative of the neon press, neon being that colorless, inert gas that lights up on command.

Stan Goff

#48. All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

Walter Benjamin

#49. In a war, you wield every weapon you have, including words. Especially words.

Fonda Lee

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

Harry Browne

#51. For the moment, I am relying on the authority of Cahir aep Ceallach, the only soldier in our company-and Cahir confirmed that winning battles by means of a rapid escape from the battlefield is permissible from the point of view of most military doctrines.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#52. I would say we must win the information war against ISIS. Every war we have ever been involved in has had a propaganda informational aspect to it.

Marco Rubio

#53. You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

Robert Capa

#54. I think sometimes we underestimate just how vulnerable Israel is on the public-relations front. That's why they spend so much money on propaganda. And that's why they panic every time they feel like they're losing the propaganda war.

Norman Finkelstein

#55. Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or in due time by the International Criminal Court of those who have engaged in aggression and propaganda for war.

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#56. Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#57. 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

#58. One of the hopeful things that I've discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. The media could've stopped it if they had searched deep enough; if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda they could've stopped it.

Julian Assange

#59. Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

Arthur Keith

#60. Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

Glenn Greenwald

#61. The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

Michael Parenti

#62. History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

Robert Higgs

#63. When the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#64. World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

Ernest Hemingway,

#65. During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.

Erik Larson

#66. ISIS is winning the propaganda war. They are recruiting people, including Americans, to join them, with the promise that they are joining this great apocalyptic movement that is going to defeat the West.

Marco Rubio

#67. In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

Erich Fromm