Quotes About Propaganda

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

In war, the moral element and public opinion are half the battle.

After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true. This myth allowed the North to hold the South responsible for the war.

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

In time of war the first casualty is truth.

Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.

You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists sites, and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters, because they want to create a war between us.

Sixty years ago this week Hitler invaded Poland. This led to the creation of The History Channel.

Truth has anciently been called the first casualty of war. Money may, in fact, have priority.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

I would say we must win the information war against ISIS. Every war we have ever been involved in has had a propaganda informational aspect to it.

there couldn't be war, unless lies were believed. War has to be nourished by lies.

Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.

The importance of fear as a factor in war-making cannot be overlooked, and can hardly be overestimated. Any politician can play on panic when he wishes to stampede a people into war.

Despite failing to get bin Laden, the U.S. government and media portrayed the early Afghanistan war as a great victory.

when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

The closer one gets to elections or wars, the further one gets from the truth.

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.