Biased Information Quotes

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do.

The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a ‘case’, obscuring the opponent’s point of view and avoiding awkward questions.

What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda.

We live in a world where we don't really hear ideas. We just hear propaganda. That's not just boring. It's also very dangerous.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.

I read 'How to Rig an Election.' Well, I read parts of it. I wouldn't necessarily quote me as saying I read the whole thing.

[This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with.

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.

Propaganda as a mere tool is no more moral or immoral than a pump handle....the only effective weapon against propaganda on behalf of one policy seems to be propaganda on behalf of an alternative.

We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.

Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring.

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 there is a danger when it comes to fake news because there is some fake news out there, but there's also a danger when you only hear back to you the beliefs you already have.

Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices.

People have now been absorbing only that they agree with. You know, part of it is if you're liberal, you consume liberal information. If you're a conservative, you consume conservative information. And there's a certain stridency in both that you know everything, and if somebody doesn't agree with you, you think they don't know what they're talking about, and you become intolerant.