#propaganda

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

#belief #better #better future #blessed #death

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#includes #necessarily #our #program #propaganda

They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully. ↗

— Johann Most

#class #know #make #never #peacefully

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them. ↗

— Curtis LeMay

#been #country #efficient #fed #hands

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

#aim #all-out #attack #campaign #coalition

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support? ↗

— Sean Hannity

#american public #garner #hyperbole #president #propaganda

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#creativity #ingenuity #peace #political-propaganda #war

{President] Kayibanda's government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the media it controlled to launch a propaganda campaign against us. In a country where more than half the people cannot read or write and very few have televisions, radio is the dominant media. The fact that some newspapers were still printing the truth didn't matter much to the part of the population that couldn't read. Most of the literate people were already politically aware. While an educated person might question what they read or hear from the media, the uneducated tend to accept it. The uneducated are more easily affected by threats and the emotional trauma that propaganda like this can create. ↗

— John Rucyahana

#genocide #media #propaganda #radio #rwanda

State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#education

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? ↗

— Howard Zinn

#propaganda #terrorism #war #terrorism