Quotes About Propaganda

American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

No one outside America any longer believes the US media or the US government... You can't believe a word the American media says. If they say anything correct, it's just an accident.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

The U.S. is a cosmetic democracy.

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars. You can't take it seriously.

Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.

You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.

All truly great art is propaganda.

If this country [America] is to survive, the best-fed-nation myth had better be recognized for what it is: propaganda designed to produce wealth not health.

Health makes good propaganda.

Obama's got a health care logo that's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook ... Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.

The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices. The victory will be only entirely and finally achieved when the whole world is free of Jews.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.