Quotes About Propaganda

I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.

I don't think that military-style information operations is conducive for any democratic process.

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.

Since people of necessity see things from their own perspective, much of what they say adds up to comforting ideas or outright propaganda for themselves and the groups to which they belong.

The media is the right arm of anarchy.

And more recently, the world had been led to believe that weapons of mass destruction existed in Iraq.

Media is the right arm of anarchy

Hoy en día las noticias falsas tienen tanto peso como las verdaderas".

Fake news now carries as much weight as real news. - Diego Garza

There was just a speck in the center of this T-shirt. But the speck grew larger—became a shirtless man walking toward the viewer—and pretty soon you could see the rapidly approaching man's face. Vladimir Putin.

The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.

When in our schools the study of current events (that is, of what is reported in the newspapers) displaces the facts of history, it is inevitable that the standard of knowledge propagated by newspapers and magazines and television networks themselves (that is, whether one is up on what is reported in the newspapers, magazines, and television) overshadows all others. When to be informed is to knowledgeable about pseudo-events, the line between knowledge and ignorance is blurred as never before.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

Because the Empire controls the media, we can turn any news to the Emperor's advantage.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.

We're taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don't have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

Communism and free-market capitalism both are modern versions of oligarchy. In their propaganda, both justify violent means by good ends, which always are put beyond reach by the violence of the means. The trick is to define the end vaguely-the greatest good of the greatest number or the benefit of the many- and keep it at a distance.

You would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory the old lie: Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori.

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

Nothing was more tiresome than a candidate who started to believe his own spin.

Hitler had had entirely too brilliant a graphics department, and had understood the power of branding all too well.