Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [221-240] of 377 Propaganda quotesPropaganda QuotesPropaganda Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Framing is a process whereby communicators, consciously or unconsciously, act to construct a point of view that encourages the facts of a given situation to be interpreted by others in a particular manner.~ Jim Kuypers Destroy the family, you destroy the country.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy’s cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.~ Pope Leo XIII The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.~ Max Lerner Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others.~ Doris Lessing Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.~ Sinclair Lewis People everywhere confuse, What they read in newspapers with news.~ A. J. Liebling How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.~ Abraham Lincoln Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws.~ Abraham Lincoln A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society.~ Walter Lippmann When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.~ Walter Lippmann We welcome almost any break in the monotony of things, a man has only to murder a series of wives in a new way to become known to millions of people who have never heard of Homer.~ Robert Wilson Lynd 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.~ General Douglas MacArthur For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.~ Niccolo Machiavelli Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.~ James Madison It is the trivial, the irrelevant, the sensational, the appeal to obsolete bigotry which naturally give it greatest publicity. In such publicity it becomes a mere vulgar caricature of itself.~ Everett Dean Martin The educator aims at a slow process of development; the propagandist, at quick results. The educator tries to tell people how to think; the propagandist, what to think. The educator strives to develop individual responsibility; the propagandist, mass effects. The educator wants thinking; the propagandist, action. The educator fails unless he achieves an open mind; the propagandist, unless he achieves a closed mind.~ Everett Dean Martin Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print