Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 377 Propaganda quotesPropaganda QuotesPropaganda Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes I would not be fooled by the old myth that reporting is about objectivity. Deciding what is news is the most subjective of acts and it is probably the most important thing that we do.~ Carl Bernstein No Gulag, evidently, can deter the advocates of state power from believing in their own virtue and in the morality of the power they exercise. We are all Hobbesians now. Virtue is presumed to reside in the state. Its reliance on compulsion is seen as fulfilling, not undermining, morality. Our communicators, oddly employed in the private sector, work tirelessly to ensure that state control is maintained, our taxes stay high, the official message is promoted. The people know, and can only know, a tiny fraction of what Leviathan does, and what they know is what these partisans tell them.~ Tom Bethel If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.~ Mary McLeod Bethune A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.~ Ernest Bevin History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.~ Ambrose Bierce Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.~ Ambrose Bierce The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.~ Steve Biko The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.~ Josh Billings What finally emerges from the ‘clear and present danger’ cases is a working principle that the substantive evil must be extremely serious and the degree of imminence extremely high before utterances can be punished…It must be taken as a command of the broadest scope that explicit language, read in the context of a liberty-loving society, will allow.~ Justice Hugo L. Black History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.~ Napoleon Bonaparte How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority of superior officers? Well, why should we then expect government schools to teach children to question the authority of government?~ Neal Boortz Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.~ Neal Boortz Only the suppressed word is dangerous.~ Ludwig Börne Every child who believes in God is mentally ill.~ Dr. Paul F. Brandwein Historians and economists are very good at creating and perpetuating myths that justify increasing the power placed in the hands of government.~ Reuven Brenner And it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsens, [President Trump] could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control what people think. And that, that is our job.~ Mika Brezinski To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.~ Ashleigh Brilliant The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.~ Merry Browne Marihuana is a more dangerous drug than heroin or cocaine. I am surprised to learn that certain police officers have been inclined to minimize the effects of the use of marihuana. They would, I am sure, be convinced that the drug is adhering to its Old World traditions of murder, assault, rape, physical demoralization, and mental breakdown. A study of the effects of marihuana shows clearly that it is a dangerous drug, and Bureau records prove that its use is associated with insanity and crime.~ Bulletin of the FBI 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.~ Alan Bullock Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print