Quotes About Propaganda

make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities,'" Hunter murmured.

Don't you see that the whole aim of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? —George Orwell,

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

1. The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. 2. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.

The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavor to keep them disunited.

Those who rule us have brilliantly applied the maxim that the best defense against truth is the unswerving repetition of lies.

Everything finally unraveled for McCarthy in early 1954. In March and April, Edward R. Murrow, a widely respected investigative reporter, ran a series of programs concerning McCarthy on See It Now, a CBS network production. It was the first time that television—which had expanded by then to 25 million households—had exposed him in any major way. For the most part Murrow let McCarthy's bullying words and truculent actions speak for themselves.

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

In pre-movie days, the business of peddling lies about life was spotty and unorganized. It was carried on by the cheaper magazines, dime novels, the hinterland preachers and whooping politicians.

Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They're just kind of flooding the airwaves.

The media's censorship is unthinkable... If we don't stop, we are going to end up like North Koreans.

Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.

Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.

When you read Western press, you probably get a feeling that all Russian press is censored, there's no freedom at all, we can't say whatever, which is absolutely, absolutely, completely untrue.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media.

We are in the middle of a big swamp of ignorance that is taught by a lot of nonsense, propaganda, absurdity, amalgams. I have a hard time listening to any speech. You feel like you want to stop the TV every two seconds to rephrase them, because it's lie after lie, turning stuff upside down, and you can't follow that. That's the trap.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.

Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.