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I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.
When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them
In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.
The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.
Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?
A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda.
The Rafale deal narrative that the Congress is setting is a propaganda that has international ramifications.
It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.
To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.
Social media serve as the propaganda machine of 21st century terror, and this is apparent in the Middle East.
Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.
Political propaganda seeks to affect the way people perceive the world in order to affect the way they behave.
Novels can change attitudes. Maybe we should speak quietly otherwise politicians will use novels as propaganda.
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
When Western politicians propose blanket discrimination against Islam, they bolster the terrorists' propaganda.
Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
I have never made a film to praise or to criticize something. That kind of filmmaking is nothing but propaganda.
Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.
Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
For whatever reason, the mainstream media, for the most part, affixes itself to progressive or liberal propaganda.
I was proud of my Soviet country, of wearing Young Pioneer uniform, bombarded by my mother's Communist propaganda.
At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.
We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice.
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
Rupert Murdoch's vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.
I don't know anything about Osama Bin Laden that doesn't come to me through the filter of the West and its propaganda.
I think 'I Spy,' still when you look at it, speaks volumes in terms of propaganda for equality. It's just magnificent.
China's censorship and propaganda systems may be complex and multilayered, but they are obviously not well coordinated.
Social media campaigns and the savviness of ISIS and propaganda is what greatly concerns us Homeland Security officials.
ISIL are already using the Internet for hideous propaganda purposes - for radicalisation, for operational planning, too.
There's still, dare I say it, a cultural propaganda against the Irish, that we are, as women, 'feisty.' I hate that word.
Critics of Fox News have pointed out that Fox News does partisan propaganda, and there's ample evidence on a daily basis.
The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.
I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
A work of art, so far as it is a work of art, cannot - whatever the artist's personal intention - advocate anything at all.
Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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.
I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.