Quotes About Propaganda

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." --H. L. Mencken

An element of propaganda, of sales and marketing, always intervened between the inner and the outer person.

A fi rus însemna a fi pesimist; a fi sovietic însemna a fi optimist. De aceea cuvintele <> erau o contradicÈ›ie de termeni. Puterea nu înÈ›elesese niciodat? acest lucru. Ea credea c? dac? ucideai o bun? parte a populaÈ›iei, iar pentru restul instaurai un regim de propagand? È™i teroare, obÈ›ineai optimism.

Costa Gavras, the most totally propagandistic director ever to breathe the air.

The cult of Mao and the cult of Lei Feng were two faces of the same coin: one was the cult of personality; the other, its essential corollary, was the cult of impersonality

Every word of Chairman Mao's is universal absolute truth, and every word equals ten thousand words!

O não-plantio da safra de 1958 mandava um aviso de que ia haver escassez de alimentos, embora as estatísticas oficiais mostrassem um aumento de dois algorismos na produção agrícola. Anunciou-se oficialmente que em 1958 a safra de trigo da China tinha superado a dos Estados Unidos. O jornal do Partido, o Diário do Povo, abriu uma discussão sobre o tema Como podemos enfrentar o problema da produção excessiva de alimentos?

For entertainment there were only Mao Thought Propaganda Teams, who sang Mao's quotations set to raucous music.

By using feminist arguments, for which most had little or no sympathy, as part of their propaganda, the colonialists tainted the cause of feminism in the Muslim world, and helped to distort the faith by introducing an imbalance that had not existed before.83 The

It's really easy to persuade people to be hateful

Let's revise the old adage for our times. All that it requires for evil to succeed is that enough lazy, stupid bastards believe everything they're told.

First to control the people, first control the media." Karl Marx

Our view, which we have found confirmed by long practice, is that the correct tactics in propaganda are not to entice away a few individuals and local groups here and there from one's opponent, but to work on the great mass, which is not yet taking part in the movement. A single individual whom one has oneself reared from the raw is worth more than ten Lassallean turncoats...

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.

When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

By the end of the millenium five men controlled the world's media. And the people rejoiced, because their TVs told them to.

The Three Branches of Government: Money, Television, and Bullshit

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

The mother tongue is propaganda.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.