What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.
Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned.
United we stand, divided we fall is one of the oldest and truest slogans of the Labour movement.
It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.
We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.
The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what's really happened.
Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.
The populists are spreading slogans. We have to offer solutions and answers.
Loose talk about no deal has given credibility to the simplistic slogans of the Brexit party and resulted in millions voting for them.
BJP's agenda was all wrong. They claimed that India was shining. Is it a utensil which will shine when rubbed? They fooled the people by these slogans and tried to divide them on the lines of religion.
The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.
economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.
There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented and developed.
So much of the time, in politics, we try to come up with these clever turns of phrase, slogans or messages, but what the public really wants is just the simple facts.
I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate.
Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.
There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth."
Merely slogans and statements will not remove poverty.
We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away
It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies.
It isn’t much use writing slogans on a wall if you plan to total the building.
Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.
The rascal multitude are the proper targets of the mass media and a public education system geared to obedience and training in needed skills, including the skill of repeating patriotic slogans on timely occasions.
Tough talk often draws headlines, but war rarely conforms to slogans.
We come up with slogans on the road and then we start putting them on the songs.
The habit of going to your congressman's town hall and asking questions, that's powerful in a way that shouting slogans or getting arrested is not, that is completely counterproductive.
What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.
I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.
From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.
Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.
I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.
Talking points aren't going to help the viewers understand something better. They're about as useful as bumper sticker slogans.
In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.
Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.
Of all the depressing abuses of language in business, there is none that gets me so incensed as the rampant overuse of the word 'passionate' in company slogans, marketing blurbs, mission statements and on the sides of vans.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and...kind of slogans that are...they fool the people. They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
Changes occur after taking practical steps, not by chanting slogans and giving speeches.
You need diplomacy and not slogans. This is the place for wisdom, the place for seeking windows that will take you to the objective.
Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.
Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.
We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.
Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.
Compromise disappoints those who buy into the most ambitious and simplistic populist slogans.
The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
I remember laughing when we made those slogans up [about abortion]. . . . We were looking for some sexy, catchy slogans to capture public opinion. They were very cynical slogans then, just as all of these slogans today are very, very cynical.
The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.
Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.
I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be
... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement.
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