Quotes About Propaganda

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the point of view of the recruiter.

Don't read, click links or subscribe to any media organisations that peddle sinister untruths and stereotypes.

Liberals are good at catchphrases, but there's no substance behind them.

The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way.

Tell a lie often enough, someone will believe it." "It's worse than that, Kirsten. Tell a lie often enough, and it stands a good chance of becoming the truth.

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.

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

The great corporation which employed you lied to you, and lied to the whole country—from top to bottom it was nothing but one gigantic lie.

Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.

The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.

education will be replaced with indoctrination.

People more readily fall victim to the big lie than the small lie,' said Hitler, 'since it would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.

Bearing all this in mind, I prepared my own triple phrased slogan. Three words and three phrases: Distrust the government Avoid mass media Fight the lies

Distrust the government Avoid mass media Fight the lies

is just that I am not so sure — as a writer — how I feel about him using poets and historians of their caliber to push —" "Lies?" I asked. Hadn't Octavianus used a masterful campaign of besmirching my mother to turn all of Rome against my father? "Public policy," he said flatly.

They have over-cultivated national rhetoric [. . .] they will have to undertake something.

Advertising is legalized lying.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

Say whatever you want. But the United States has a kickass military and really good bullshit marketing people. If this country was a person it would be a used car salesman with a flamethrower.

They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and cars.

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.