#pagan

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

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#empires #exhausted #fallow #lie #long

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

#film #i #just #look #make

When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries. ↗

— Norman Jewison

#documentaries #film #i #make #never

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#ate #bark #bombarded #day #elite

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

#ethical #evolutionary #force #german #german people

Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#become #belief #concern #enough #often

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

#called #department #general #i #know

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#forget #larger #population #propaganda #way