Propaganda Quotes

What the insurgency is about is not a mystery. It's not a puzzle. They're not hiding it. They're broadcasting it. Let's try to understand it politically, rather than simply have [our] own preconceptions and dismiss it as propaganda. - Rob Malley

What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement. - Clara Zetkin

What is important for them is talks... The Americans want Iran to sit down at the table of talks. This propaganda campaign is aimed at showing that Iran has surrendered. - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it. - Jimmy Wales

We will put our friends and our brothers, the Arabs and the Europeans ... far away from the Israeli propaganda and big lies that they are trying to put about what happened in Camp David. - Yasser Arafat

We will not be intimidated. The news is not propaganda. It is not something to be manipulated, distorted nor censored. Recent events have only strengthened our resolve to continue giving the public the truth in line with the strict guidelines of our Code of Ethics. - Maria Ressa

We need to proceed with hearings... Obviously we haven't seen the [IFC] report it was leaked. [But] I just don't see how there can be put in place a museum that a year from now, or five years from now, could be hijacked by someone who wants to promote anti-American propaganda. - Vito Fossella

We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life. - Alain De Botton