Quotes: Propaganda

It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them.

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.

Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.

It’s so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

I’m proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

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

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.