Quotes About Propaganda

Khomeini and Khamenei were everywhere; on giant billboards at the roadside, as vast lurid murals on concrete apartment blocks and, less impressively, on sagging vinyl banners outside schools and mosques. With their almost identical appearance and surnames they reminded me of an Islamic Thomson and Thompson, the hapless detectives of the Tintin books. But that, I feared, was where the similarity ended.

Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world. —William Moulton Marston, March 1945

As hard to believe as it may be for Americans brought up on wartime propaganda films and publications devoted merely to war technology and battles, World War II was largely the result of infighting between secret occult societies composed of wealthy businessmen that eventually led to international tensions that provoked open warfare.

The media controls the mind.

Whoever controls the media controls the mind.

The program Hitler outlined rejected everything: it was anticapitalistic and antiproletarian, revolutionary and restorational; it conjured up its dire visions of the future along with nostalgic pictures of the good old days.

It is horrible how people will use anything as a political monkey wrench and to hell with the country. (Julia Child to Avis DeVoto)

Those people who say that words have no power know nothing of the nature of words. Words, well placed, can end a regime; can turn affection to hatred; can start a religion or even a war. Words are the shepherds of lies; they lead the best of us to the slaughter.

I don't know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and environmental work. I just want to do good.

Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.

He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.

You can convince anybody of anything if you just push it at them all of the time. They may not believe it 100 percent, but they will still draw opinions from it, especially if they have no other information to draw their opinions from.

To-day, it is no exaggeration to claim that out of the eleven countries smashed and overrun by Germany, half of them were destroyed, not by tanks, but by propaganda.

Jedyna ró?nica miÄ™dzy psychopatÄ… i politykiem - psychopata olewa to, czy stoi po wÅ'aÅ›ciwej stronie. Zabija bez wstÄ™pnych ceregieli, to znaczy nie tracÄ…c czasu na sprowadzanie swojej ofiary do roli potwora. Natomiast politycy robiÄ… to z zachowaniem reguÅ': najpierw propaganda, dopiero potem jatka.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature must become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake "public opinion" for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.

that social-chauvinism (socialism in words, chauvinism in deeds)

FALLACY I—The first fallacy of Communism is its attempt to over-simplify history.

Once he said to me in the height of his imperial propaganda, 'Tell those young men in Ireland that this great thing must go on. They say Ireland is not fit for self-government but that is nonsense. It is as fit as any other European country but we cannot grant it.

Once he said to me in the height of his imperial propaganda, "Tell those young men in Ireland that this great thing must go on. They say Ireland is not fit for self-government, but that is nonsense. It is as fit as any other European country, but we cannot grant it.