propaganda quotes

It is just as full of propaganda as a dog is full of fleas. In fact, I say it's all fleas and no dog.

- Dean Gooderham Acheson
Of Russian Foreign Minister Andre Vishinsky's proposal that the US should withdraw from postwar Europe. Quoted in  James B Reston Deadline (1991).

The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of theterm.Theyare engines of propaganda for the constantly-changing policies, desires, personal wishes, and personal likes and dislikes of two men† What the proprietorship of those papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibilitythe prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

- Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin (of Bewdley)
  Speech,18 Mar. Rudyard Kipling, Baldwin's cousin, is alleged to be the original author of this famous phrase. Harold Macmillan claimed that the Duke of Devonshire (his father-in- law) responded 'Good God, that's done it, he's lost us the tarts.'

The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.

- Friedrich Engels
  Letter to Eduard Bernstein,17  Jul.

The propaganda arm of the American Dream machine.

- Molly Haskell
  Of Hollywood. From Reverence to Rape: the treatment of women in the movies.

I read the first 2 pages of the usual sloppy English and [Stuart Gilbert] read me a lyrical bit about nudism in the wood and the end which is a piece of propaganda in favour of something which, outside of D. H. L.'s country at any rates, makes all the propaganda for itself.

-James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
On D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. Letter to Harriet Weaver,17 Dec.

The news of the dayas it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper isinall literalnessthebibleofdemocracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

-Walter Lippmann
  Liberty and the News,'What Modern Liberty Means'.

I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It isgenerally regarded here as more reliable than the press.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  In the Partisan Review,15  Apr. Reprinted in Collected Essays,  Journalism and Letters, vol.2.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  Diary entry,14 Mar.