Quotes About Propaganda

When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.

In war, the first casualty is truth.

Truth is the first casualty of war.

Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

ROSTRUM, n. In Latin, the beak of a bird or the prow of a ship. In America, a place from which a candidate for office energetically expounds the wisdom, virtue and power of the rabble.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

Who's to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos." The skin of this world," he said quietly.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.

People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.

When I was trying to figure out how the government might go about creating the camps in 'The Darkest Minds,' I researched the Japanese internment camps here in the United States, specifically propaganda the government used, and how they capitalized on people's fears.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.

You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly.

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.

Ideology is a virus.