Quotes About Propaganda

Like religion, politics traffics in and plays upon our deepest hopes and fears. And like religion, authoritharian political propaganda works by first making us feel endangered and then offering us a way to escape form our feelings of helplessness.

When enemy is thought of as filth, war is conceived as a grand hygiene operation.

And you were of the opinion propaganda has to make sense to be effective?

The other side's version," Kolokoltsov thought. Even here, he's not willing to call it "the truth." Whoever said truth is the first casualty of war damned well knew what he was talking about!

The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it

strawmen—as manufactured ogres, created for their own propaganda purposes.

Pop fiction falls between the private and personal world of the home and the outside world of the publishers, studios, record labels and broadcasters, massive corporations which threaten to turn the most fundamental quality of human beings – our unending love of communication – into big business and, at its worst, propaganda.

There's never been an era absent of demagogues.

Politicians were beginning to realize that if one cannot have the glory of successful war on foreign soil, one can do almost as well by creating a minor replica at home

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible.

When Fascism Comes to America, It Will Come Under the Guise of Anti-fascism.

The working class positively benefited from Hitler`s rule, under which the standard of living was raised till it became the highest in Europe.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Every government is run by liars. Nothing they say should be believed.

But, at the end of the day, the problem isn't money, lies, propaganda, negative ads, dirty tricks, decentralized news, talking points, or trumped up investigations. The problem is that they work on us. And they work because we're uncritical, uneducated, and uninformed. A smarter electorate would be more skeptical of the lies. In fact, the incendiary tone and hyperbolic rhetoric in the message would instantly lead one to question the content. And

William Shirer, witnessing the scene, the 600 Reichstag deputies, 'little men with big bodies and bulging necks and cropped hair and pouched bellies and brown uniforms and heavy boots, little men of clay in his fine hands, leap to their feet like automatons, their right arms upstretched in the Nazi salute, and scream "Heil's".

Hitler's technique of throwing out a torrent of statistics – correct, fabricated, or embellished – to support an argument made countering it extremely difficult. Adam, struck – so he later claimed – by Hitler's 'lack of education (Unbildung)', inability to confront reality, and readiness to resort to lies to get his way, retorted provocatively that if that was the case, there was little point in worrying any longer about the western

What Hitler did was advertise unoriginal ideas in an original way. He gave voice to phobias, prejudice, and resentment as no one else could. Others could say the same thing but make no impact at all. It was less what he said, than how he said it that counted. As it was to be throughout his 'career', presentation was what mattered.

But it was predominantly a reflection of Hitler's concept of politics as essentially agitation, propaganda, and 'struggle'. Organizational forms remained of little concern to him as long as his own freedom of action was not constrained by them. The crucial issue was the leadership of the 'political struggle'.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Supporter: Someone who will say anything.

A la propaganda ya no le interesaba convencer, sino provocar una cacofonía sobre diferentes versiones para que no se estuviese seguro de nada.

Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.