Top 215 Propaganda Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Propaganda Quotes from famous people such as Varg Vikernes, Kim Il-sung, Ernst Zundel, Christopher Lasch, Alexander Haig, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

You should never trust anything reported by the media.

You should never trust anything reported by the media. Their first priority is to spread propaganda; their second priority is to make money. They never really care if they tell the truth or not.
Varg Vikernes
It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.
Kim Il-sung
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
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
Christopher Lasch
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
And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic.
Robert W. Welch, Jr.
The Russian propaganda machine, even in the U.S., is not to be discounted.
Richard Grenell
Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.
Ludwig Quidde
Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.
Alice Walker
These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it’s too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.
Godfrey Reggio
Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully by King George VI to inspire the British people to fight invasion.
Rebecca MacKinnon
A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.
Gerald R. Ford
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffer
‘The Lorax’ book was intended to be propaganda.
Dr. Seuss
Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.
Alice Walker
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth – that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
Harry Browne
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
They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.
Johann Most
The right-wing wants to destroy all the media and replace it with their propaganda.
Cenk Uygur
The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery.
Franklin Foer
Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.
John Berger
U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with minimal effect on civilians. Technical documents give a different picture.
Noam Chomsky
It’s so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
Harold Pinter
We have seen the corrupting effects of a deliberate propaganda campaign driven by fake news.
Jimmy Gomez
Like every country, North Korea has some very smart people. They could be contributing a lot more to science and other areas, but North Koreans are forced to spend so much time memorising the fake history of our dictators and other propaganda, so are at a huge disadvantage.
Lee Hyeon-seo
China’s propaganda approach with the West is different than the one used by the Soviet Union, which used Western belligerence to maintain its control over its domestic audience. China’s strategy is one of influence and inertia.
Erin O’Toole
You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you’d go off with a brochure in hand and you’d turn up and it wouldn’t be like that at all.
Emma Donoghue
It’s unfathomable that Twitter would be so brazenly complacent, allowing Hamas to use its platform as a terror command and communications center of dangerous propaganda.
Lee Zeldin
I was proud of my Soviet country, of wearing Young Pioneer uniform, bombarded by my mother’s Communist propaganda.
Roustam Tariko
Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda.
Olga Tokarczuk
Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers.
Leon Jouhaux
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Musharraf’s government has a civilian face – there are still elections and assemblies – and he has come to believe his own propaganda that he really is a democrat.
Asma Jahangir
All writing is propaganda for the self.
Jill Soloway
Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don’t.
Brad Holland
It’s so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
Harold Pinter
Terrorists, in ungoverned spaces, disseminate poisonous propaganda and training materials to attract troubled souls around the world to their cause.
James Comey
The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.
Shane Smith
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky
All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
W. E. B. Du Bois
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
Adolf Hitler
The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
Robert Capa
The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.
Lincoln Steffens
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
D. H. Lawrence
The threat of gold redeemability imposes a constant check and limit on inflationary issues of government paper. If the government can remove the threat, it can expand and inflate without cease. And so it begins to emit propaganda, trying to persuade the public not to use gold coins in their daily lives.
Murray Rothbard
The contrast of ISIL’s videos – which proclaim a fully-functioning and prosperous state – with those of RBSS, which captured the dysfunction and violence of everyday life, is shocking. In a sense, it’s a war of ideas, a war of propaganda, a war being waged with cameras and computers, not just guns.
Matthew Heineman
I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of ‘spreading propaganda against the system,’ ‘insulting members of the parliament through paintings’ and ‘insulting the Supreme Leader’ with her cartoon.
Nazanin Boniadi
I did not think the Oligarchy would allow Trump to win. However, it seems that the oligarchs were deceived by their own media propaganda.
Paul Craig Roberts
A lot of times in television, you don’t get the opportunity to show real life because we’re brainwashed to believe the propaganda that these things aren’t marketable, that these things don’t sell.
Roy Choi
Look, I’m just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.
Norman Jewison
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
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
Jack Steinberger
I have said that propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation have always been part of political warfare. Social media and other new platforms have given it a new life and reach through which the fake news phenomenon can reach everywhere.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
If you look back at history, most important PR and propaganda was invented by the Communist Party.
Dominic Cummings
We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
Garry Kasparov
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.
Jacques Ellul
My experience investigating foreign propaganda operations predated the proliferation of social media platforms.
Asha Rangappa
I have never made a film to praise or to criticize something. That kind of filmmaking is nothing but propaganda.
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Simply put, Guantanamo is one of the best propaganda tools that terrorists have today. Our enemies use it to justify terrorism and recruit others to carry out violent jihad, and our allies continue to criticize it as a violation of the rule of law.
Dianne Feinstein