Quotes About Propaganda

The propaganda maestro of the Third Reich, Joseph Goebbels, famously declared that the capital would be gay and happy—or else. Orders from Berlin specified that the Hôtel Ritz would be the only luxury hotel of its kind in occupied Paris.

I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.

All of North Korea is a jail.

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.

Everything in North Korea was about the leader, all the books, music and TV.

The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist.

In North Korea, we learnt all Americans are the enemy; they are not human.

My real concern is what happens if China becomes the next Cambridge Analytica, what happens if North Korea becomes the next Cambridge Analytica?

We were taught North Korea is a heaven. They told us how people in western countries die in hospital or have no money to study in school.

When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

Yes, the Obama administration has and will continue to use Hollywood and the entertainment industry to push its agenda.

Los diarios franceses... así como el Daily Telegraph. reciclaron por enésima vez en sus páginas la idea de que el Imperio Otomano era el <>.

A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.

He disliked nearly all women and especially the young and pretty ones who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party the swallowers of slogans the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.

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

the point of fake news isn't just to make it so that no one can tell what's true, it's to make it so that no one cares anymore, so that when you try to get all your friends to go out and march about something that they should already be thinking about, they're all like, 'Eh, is that even real?' Your enemies don't need people to disagree with you, they just need people not to care.

To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?

Thus all art is propaganda and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda. But I do care when propaganda is confined to one side while the other is stripped and silent.

XVII. THE PROPAGANDA OF HISTORY How the facts of American history have in the last half century have been falsified because the nation was ashamed. The South was ashamed because it fought to perpetuate human slavery. The North was ashamed because it had to call in the black men to save the Union, abolish slavery and establish democracy.

Thus all art is propaganda and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy.

Like the boy who cried wolf, or the football coach whose pep talks wear thin, the pope or president who turns every cause into a holy one, every enemy into a Hitler, every conflict into a genocide, may soon find his audience rolling its eyes and sinking into the very cynicism he hopes to surmount.

American colleges and universities are propaganda machines