Quotes About Propaganda

Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.

...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

There used to be a lot more politics in the Olympics, when the Soviet Bloc committed a lot of resources for propaganda purposes.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth

General assumptions often lead to erroneous conclusions, but one cannot go far wrong in always assuming that whatever one's government is saying is a lie.

A politician has an axe to grindWith which he aims to chop off half your mind.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.