Quotes About Propaganda

if a lie is repeated often enough, it ends up convincing everyone

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

Thus all Art is propaganda and ever must be.

Art is not boosterism, it's not propaganda, and it's not spin, but that's not something that art does, and nor has it historically ever done it.

Obscenity, who really cares. Propaganda, all is phony.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to believe.

The packs of cigarettes available here carried the typical skulls and crossbones on them, but apparently no one in North Korea cared.

the parlance of the perception management field, the world had firmly entered the "gripper" stage, where the majority of people embraced as true everything they were told. It was far easier to accomplish this than most would care or dare to believe. It was easy to manipulate people. Folks had been doing it pretty much forever with results that had taken the world right to the edge of destruction.

It was called 'the Big Lie' technique, Johnny. Just sound like you know what you're talking about—as if you're citing real facts. Talk very fast. Weave your lies into the shape of a conspiracy theory and repeat your assertions over and over again. Those who want an excuse to hate or blame—those with big but weak egos—will leap at a simple, neat explanation for the way the world is. Those types will never call you on the facts.

Let me repeat: I know there are conspiracies! Indeed, it's laughable to ignore the most blatant one called Fox News, which openly works for a mélange of foreign billionaires, from the Saudis to Russian mafiosi, from Macao casino lords to an Australian deceit mogul.

I want to set the record straight. The record's never straight, you idiot! Haven't you ever read 1984 ? They rewrite the record anytime it doesn't suit them. You're spinning your wheels and exposing your bare fanny for nothing.

What I was thinking is is this maybe a textbook case of Johnny-Gentle-type-find-an-enemy-for-a-divided-nation-to-come-together-by-blaming-and-hating theory in action?

Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators.

The goose-step has always seemed to me to be an outlandish exhibition of the human being in his most undignified and stupid state.