#propaganda

this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#literature #writing #propaganda

سيكونون في ورطة. ليس لديهم برنامج سياسي أبعد من "الإسلام هو الحل". اسألهم عن أي تفاصيل لا تجد عندهم إجابة. ↗

— Ahdaf Soueif

#political-propaganda #love

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

— Harry Browne

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Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. ↗

— F. M. Cornford

#branch #consists #deceiving #friends #lying

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#friendly #hatred #more #much #propaganda

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

— Walter Benjamin

#art #poltics #propaganda #war #art

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#politics #propaganda

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#believed #credible #effective #must #propaganda

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it. ↗

— Edward Bond

#explore #further #i #job #moment

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. ↗

— Robert Capa

#best picture #picture #propaganda #truth #truth is