Home / Topics / Messages Quotes

Messages Quotes

Browse 3229 quotes about Messages.

Messages Quotes

“When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.”

Looks Jobs Messages Asking Obvious Propaganda

Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion

“Like propaganda generally, advertising must thus pervade the atmosphere; for it wants, paradoxically, to startle its beholders without really being noticed by them. Its aim is to jolt us, not "into thinking," as in a Brechtian formulation, but specifically away from thought, into quasiautomatic action: "To us," as an executive at Coca-Cola puts it, "communication is message assimilation--the respondent must be shown to behave in some way that proves they [sic] have come to accept the message, not merely to have received it.”

Thinking Way Want Action Accepting Communication Prove Messages Aim Advertising Atmosphere Propaganda Behave Executives Assimilation Beholder Coca Cola

Book:Boxed in: The Culture of TV

Source: Boxed in: The Culture of TV

“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.”

Ifs Information Messages Conviction Critical Violent Rational Propaganda Shock Listeners Provoking Participation Decrease

Author:Jacques Ellul

“A citizen walking through the airport today is bombarded with 1984-style propaganda messages that are designed to make us fear some amorphous threat and also be suspicious of others. The government designs these messages to make us feel dependent and heavily lorded over in every aspect of our lives. These messages are becoming ever more pervasive, hitting us even in grocery stores when we are shopping.”

Feels Government Today Our Lives Style Design Becoming Citizens Walking Messages Aspect Threat Stores Propaganda Dependent Shopping Hitting Airports Suspicious Groceries Grocery Stores Bombarded

Author:Ron Paul