Quotes About Propaganda

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

These monstrous views,... these venomous teachings.

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.

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

Sobald eine Regierung es für notwendig befindet, ihren Bürgern durch Plakate Frieden und Wohlstand zu versprechen, muss man auf der Hut sein und das Gegenteil davon erwarten.

Although leftists are not uniquely guilty of lying, they are uniquely guilty of lying as a conscious strategy.

As Vladimir Lenin once reportedly said, "A lie told often enough becomes the truth." Although Obama did not drink deeply at this well, he drank deeply enough to be intoxicated with its spirit.

In our charade with ourselves we pretend that our war is not really war. We have changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department and call a whole class of nuclear missiles Peace Keepers!

The press of the United States? It is a parasitic growth that battens on the capitalist class. Its function is to serve the established by moulding public opinion, and right well it serves it.

That the work of a drinker who had no intention of stopping drinking should become a major propaganda piece in the campaign for Prohibition is surely one of the ironies in the history of alcohol.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

Tyranny will make an entire population into readers of poetry.

When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion has politics, that are ugly.

The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

You'd think after 8 years of things called 'The Patriot Act' and 'No Child Left Behind' they would know that we have figured out the 'Call it what it ain't' PR ploy by now, but... um... no.

It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism

In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.