P Quotes
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“Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.”
“Propaganda is the art of using words to create the illusion that what the words promise actually exists to be promised.”
“Propaganda is the evil twin of Fiction: while Fiction is the art of telling the truth without ever telling the truth, Propaganda is the art of using the truth to tell a lie.”
“Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.”
Source: Propaganda
“Propaganda is the hatred of truth in action.”
“Propaganda is the most powerful invention of all time because it enables human selection. It moulds thinking. It creates saints and devils. It ensures that for every Mother Theresa there are a hundred little Hitlers; and a couple of bigger ones.”
Source: The Retrieval Chamber
“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...”
“Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.”
Source: Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
“Propaganda is where a demagogue plays pedagogue and starts a monologue to leave their audience agog.”
“Propaganda may be defined as opposed to rational argument; argument based upon facts. Argument based on facts aims at producing an intellectual conviction; propaganda aims, above all, at producing reflex action. It is aimed at bypassing the rational choice based upon knowledge of facts and getting directly at the solar plexus, so to speak, and affecting the subconscious.”
Source: Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
“Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.”
“Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.”
“Propaganda must not concern itself with what is best in man - the highest goals humanity sets for itself, its noblest and most precious feelings. Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve. It must therefore utilize the most common feelings, the most widespread ideas, the crudest patterns, and in so doing place itself on a very low level with regard to what it wants man to do and to what end. Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.”
“Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.”
“Propaganda only works when you get totally disconnected from real people and get connected to the screen. When you get to know real people, propaganda doesn’t stand a chance. It’s simply impossible to believe that everyone hates you when you see evidence to the contrary every day.”
Source: The New Exodus: Escaping Putin's War
“PROPAGANDA (PROP-A-GANDER)
An evil grin behind a smiling clown's mask
Kamil Ali”
Source: The Initiates
“Propaganda rarely makes good art.”
“Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.”
“Propaganda’s favorite delicacy is ignorance. Take that out of its diet and it will starve.”
“Propaganda tries first of all to create conditioned reflexes in the individual so that certain words, signs, or symbols, even certain persons or facts, provoke unfailing reactions...The important thing is that when the time is ripe, the individual can be thrown into action by the utilization of the psychological levers that have been set up.”
“Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological grounds to become a brake on the further dissemination of ideas.”
“Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.”
“Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.”
Source: Propaganda
“Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated
are confident they are acting on their own free will.”
“Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less conviction and participation. The listeners critical powers decrease if the propaganda message is more rational and less violent.”
“Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.”
“Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.”
“Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.”
“Propelled by violas and stinging electric guitar, presto followed andante, and so to finale.”
Source: Aristoi
“Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“Proper accounting is like engineering. You need a margin of safety. Thank God we don't design bridges and airplanes the way we do accounting.”
“Proper and effective use of time yields good result”
“Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?”
Source: The last lecture
“Proper business models include human flourishing.”
“Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.”
“Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.”
“Proper decision making models are the difference between the successful and non.”
“Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman.”
Source: The Tragedy of King Lear
“Proper discipline hurts.”
“Proper diversification can be achieved with a handful of assets. On the other hand, a poorly selected portfolio with hundreds of stocks and bonds can be inadequate for diversification purposes.”
“Proper diversification means investing in uncorrelated assets, and investing in multiple assets needs multiple sets of knowledge, more hours of research, and more market
following. It is definitely more work for an investor.”
“Proper driving etiquette demands that you basically get close enough to a car in front of you at a busy intersection that it would mean that in certain third-world countries, or South Carolina, you would have to get married.”
Source: Rude Bitches Make Me Tired: Slightly Profane and Entirely Logical Answers to Modern Etiquette Dilemmas
“Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.”
“Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom.”
Source: The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose
“proper guideline able to gain good grade or good result.”
“Proper handling of a horse like this is no simple matter. He was trained to race, from birth. Not only to race, but to be the best. Once a champion, he was spoiled with attention and permissive handling. Add to that, he's an ungelded male, with a strong natural mating drive. It all adds up to a horse with a mile-wide streak of arrogance, bloody bored out of his mind. Without proper exercise and opportunities to mate, all that aggressive energy festers. He becomes moody, intractable, withdrawn, destructive."
Ashworth raised an eyebrow at Bellamy. "Is it just me, or is this conversation becoming uncomfortably personal?"
Spencer fumed. "I'm not referring to myself, you ass.”
Source: One Dance with a Duke
“Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.”
“proper Inventory Management is one of the important key for E-business”
“Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.”
Source: Flipped
“Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.”
Source: Essays