“There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, 'Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.'” LooksBookLyingMovementNewsFairsPropagandaComparisonLiarsBalancedSeanNpr Author:Al Franken
“Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.” MenSelfReasonLyingEvilPoorPropagandaServingSelf Serving Book:Assignment in Eternity Source: Assignment in Eternity
“American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.” ImportantReasonTruthLyingSimpleWorstTruth IsEthicsTraditionPropagandaTruthfulCredibleBelievablePersuasiveBeing TruthfulAmerican Tradition Author:Edward R. Murrow
“Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.” PeopleHardShowsRealityLyingRolesFashionPaperPhotographyNewsPhotographDeceptionPropagandaGlamorous Author:Martin Parr
“Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of all propagandas -- those insults to human nature -- is carried on by the most expert psychological methods -- for instance, by always repeating a lie.” HumansLyingModernHuman NatureArgumentFunctionMethodCompetitionPsychologicalAdvertisingInstancePropagandaExpertsConfusedInsultSubstitutesArticles Book:The Works of George Santayana Source: The Works of George Santayana
“Try not to be too angry or disappointed with your fellow Americans. Most of them don't care about politics as much as the majority of my readers, and the education they have received about it from the government's public school system is nothing more than a septic tank full of warmed-over self-serving statist lies and leftist propaganda.” SelfGovernmentCareSchoolLyingReaderFellowsAngryMajorityDon't CarePropagandaServingDisappointedPublic SchoolTanksLeftistsSchool SystemSelf Serving Author:L. Neil Smith
“Pitching was about fooling people, manipulating them, making them believe in something that ultimately wasn't there. Great pitching was great lying.” PeopleBelieveLyingAdvertisingPropagandaPersuasionPitching Book:Move on: adventures in the real world Source: Move on: adventures in the real world
“The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.” HeartLyingPropagandaParadoxThroatRepetition Author:John Grierson