Quotes About Propaganda

I think: the powers like to talk about "freedom" in order to wash the population's brains.

A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Fear has become normal and is covered by the idea of "patriotism".

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves.

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them.

Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side.

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.

Un sociólogo norteamericano dijo hace más de treinta años que la propaganda era una formidable vendedora de sueños, pero resulta que yo no quiero que me vendan sueños ajenos, si no sencillamente que se cumplan los míos.

Las mentiras machacadas día y noche se vuelven verdades.

Language is intrinsically political, as how we talk about something conditions how we think about it,

It's the 'big lie' theory: tell a big lie, and tell it often—and attack anyone who calls it a lie.

In short, Marx understood the power of mass communication and the need to control it and shape it to frame events and opinions. In other words, the purpose was to propagandize, not inform.

Indeed, social activism, progressive groupthink, Democratic Party partisanship, opinion and propaganda passed off as news, the staging of pseudo-events, self-censorship, bias by omission, and outright falsehoods are too often substituting for old-fashioned, objective fact gathering and news reporting.

Totalitarian propaganda can outrageously insult common sense only where common sense has lost its validity.

the New York Times, one of the most influential newspapers in the United States, was a propaganda sheet for Stalin's early regime and helped cover up the genocide and atrocities against the Ukrainians.17

journalism has become an overwhelmingly progressive enterprise, and the disingenuousness with which it is mostly denied, defended, or even celebrated often leads to a pack mentality, groupthink, repetition, and even propaganda presented as news.

Chuck Todd is not alone among journalists with thin academic records and limited experiential backgrounds. Then again, propagandizing does not require exceptional knowledge or talent.

But when the media function as a propaganda tool for a

the constant repetition of falsehood is more convincing than the demonstration of truth.

Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.