Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [321-340] of 377 Propaganda quotesPropaganda QuotesPropaganda Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes ... political reporters love to write about politics as if they are merely disinterested observers of political events and the public's perceptions of them, when in fact they play a very key role in shaping those events and perceptions.~ Greg Sargent No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.~ Leonard Schapiro Can we truly expect those who aim to exploit us to be trusted to educate us?~ Eric Schaub The State…has had a vested interest in promoting attitudes that would tend to make us skeptical of our own abilities, fearful of the motives of others, and emotionally dependent upon external authorities for purpose and direction in our lives.~ Butler D. Shaffer If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.~ George Bernard Shaw The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that’s happened in American political life.~ John Silber We do not need any more preaching about right or wrong. The old 'thou shall nots' simply are not relevant... Values clarification is a method for teachers to change the values of children without getting caught.~ Dr. Sidney Simon In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college.~ Joseph Sobran False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.~ Socrates The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.~ Thomas Sowell The next time somebody in the media denies that there is media bias, ask how they explain the fact that there are at least a hundred stories about the shrinking arctic ice cap for every one about the expanding antarctic ice cap, which has now grown to record size.~ Thomas Sowell One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.~ Thomas Sowell One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires — and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing.~ Thomas Sowell Hitler’s dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.~ Albert Speer Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy’s house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded – after all, the cop was protecting us.~ Gerry Spence The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.~ Herbert Spencer Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this consent of 'the people' exists only in theory. It has no existence in fact. Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.~ Lysander Spooner The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.~ Stendhal Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print