Quotes About Propaganda

I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?

If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That's what modern authoritarians do. You lie. All the time. Then, you say it's your opponents and the journalists who lie.

In North Korea, people who are actually oppressed don't even know they're oppressed.

If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

I'm not a fan of Fox News. They do more to pervert the truth in this country than most organizations that I know of.

Have you ever noticed how hell-bent liberals are at making the United States seem inferior to other countries... to any country?

Deze Koude Oorlog, deze gestolde hysterie met haar wapenwedloop, haar spionagecultuur, haar wederzijdse voorspelbare propaganda, en alle gigantische kosten die dat met zich meebracht… Wat was daar uiteindelijk de tol van? En de zin? Hoeveel levens waren evengoed verwoest, hoeveel dromen onderdrukt, hoeveel landen op de rand van het bankroet gebracht?

Moreover the present abundance3 of private cars is nothing other than the result of the non-stop propaganda through which capitalist production persuades the mob--and in this case is one of its most confounding successes--that the possession of a car is specifically one of the privileges our society reserves for its privileged members.

Hitler responded by calling Mussolini's movement "Kosher fascism.")

1938, Italians from Milan to Naples had opened their newspapers to discover that they were all "pure Aryan Nordics" and that their Jewish colleagues were dangerous aliens. Jews, including die-hard Fascists, were dismissed from all military, university, and government posts. By that fall, Italian Jews were not allowed to have listed phone numbers, presumably because it corrupted the sea of pure Nordic names in the Italian telephone directory.

The ceremony in which they were laid demonstrated what the Zionist movement was best at: public relations.

Clare Short, who today poses as an anti-war warrior but was six years ago Blair's cheerleader-in-chief for bombing Yugoslavia. After the attack on Radio-Televizija Jugoslavenska she said, 'The propaganda machine is prolonging the war and it's a legitimate target'. Amnesty International pointed out 'intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects is a war crime under the Rome Statutes of the International Criminal Court'.

Gott Mit Uns! Nobiscum Deus! Emmanuel! Heil Hitler! Hail Victory! Seig Heil! Seig Heil! Seig Heil! Seig Heil! Seig Heil!

Various experts tried to explain the trend. Was it sexism? Russian propaganda? Hillary's failure to campaign in the upper Midwest? Almost nobody suggested the obvious: if voters think you hate them for how they were born, they won't vote for you.

You often hear people say the news is full of lies. But most of the time that's not exactly right. Much of what you see on television or read in The New York Times is in fact true in the literal sense, But that doesn't make it true. It's not true. At the most basic level, the news you consume is a lie. A lie of the stealthiest and most insidious kind. Facts have been withheld on purpose along with proportion and perspective. You are being manipulated.

The British obviously overlooked the fact that an American only has to be sold on the idea that his cause is just and he is capable of anything.

Johnson noted that Bishop Brown not only wrote such books for adults but he also wrote books for children in order to indoctrinate them in atheism. Said Johnson, "He also issued antireligious material for children. … When I was a member of the Communist Party, the Communist Party paid special attention to the indoctrination of the youth. They in fact issued special bulletins instructing leaders and teachers with regard to the type of training for the youth.

Few professions were sized up by communists quite like the teachers' unions.

Like Lenin before them, and the cultural Marxists that followed, they saw education as indispensable to inculcating their far-left agenda. "Give me four years to teach the children," asserted Lenin, "and the seed I have sown shall never be uprooted."448

As communists sought to enter the churches of Christendom, they simultaneously sought to set them ablaze—and not merely metaphorically. In the USSR and throughout the communist world, churches were ignited, dynamited, obliterated. As communists in the West assured Christians that they wanted to shake hands with them, communists in the East and elsewhere handcuffed them and blew up their churches.

Sheen said that the communists had failed to convince the world that there is no God. Rather, he quipped, they had succeeded only in convincing the world that there is a Devil.33

news media are either propaganda organs or desperately afraid of declaring, in any straightforward way, that politicians are wrong, no matter how much what they say is at odds with the truth.

most of the portraits of Niyazov all over Turkmenistan showed him smiling, though he never looked less reliable, or less amused, than when he was smiling. His smile – and this may be true of all political leaders – was his most sinister feature.

nothing is more indicative of a war going badly than valiant propaganda ... Anything officially denied was probably a fact.