Quotes About Propaganda

Education teaches people how to think, while propaganda teaches people what to think.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.

El gobierno de Fidel Castro había vetado a Univision en la isla desde hacía muchos años. Debido a que la cadena tenía su sede principal en Miami, nos percibían como parcializados y extremadamente influidos por los

the entire Vietnam peace movement had been KGB funded, as were many journalism departments.

How many people have figured out that if you lie enough, and loud enough, people will start to believe?

and a member of a neo-Nazi party and

It's conspiracy mongering." "I agree. But not all conspiracies crop up because someone forgot to adjust their tinfoil hat, ma'am. Sometimes they're part of a disinformation campaign.

A newspaper publisher. In the late 1800s the United States and Spain were warming up for a war over Cuba, and Hearst sent an illustrator to Cuba to make pictures of the event. When the illustrator got there, he sent a telegram to Hearst saying that as far as he could see, there was no war coming and that he was going home. Hearst sent back that he should stay and said, 'You furnish the pictures, and I will furnish the war.' And he did.

the so-called free world was a dictatorship that used media and conformist conditioning to enforce its dominion.

Her father was frightened by a strange bed or a foreign language or a political party he didn't belong to. Her father truly believed that the Democratic party was a subversive organization whose design would destroy the United States and put it in the hands of bearded communists.

I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter than Bush? Axis of Evil? Come on. A swimmer in the ocean does not fear the rain is much more powerful propaganda. Poetic, even.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd instantly become racists themselves.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullsh... Just a poor excuse for you to use up all your bullets.

The French would do whatever it took to get Britain to commit itself. In 1909 they produced a carefully faked document, said to have been discovered when a French commercial traveler picked up the wrong bag on a train, which purported to show Germany's invasion plans for Britain.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Nazism (national Socialism) and communism (international socialism) were but two sides of the same coin.

Demonise one of them and the sympathisers will melt away.