Quotes About Propaganda

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.

Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

Hamas was born to destroy. Hamas does not know how to build. I doubt they will be able to build a modern Palestinian state and hope their lies will be exposed to the Palestinian public.

China spends a lot of resources and effort on gaining soft power over culture. The hope is that it can be the last lifeline for the Party's survival. Obviously, the idea will fail.

The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer a fair and in fact rather severe test of those conclusions.

I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.

The Literary and Artistic heritage of humanity should be used for partisan propaganda purposes.

Hitler was a vegetarian. Just goes to show, vegetarianism, not always a good thing. Can in some extreme cases lead to genocide.

Lebanon is the only country where media kills more than bombs, injures more than guns...and at last they say freedom of speech...

It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed.

When we listen to the radio, look at television and read the newspapers we wonder whether universal education has been the great boon that its supporters have always claimed it would be.

Art functioning as propaganda is not art.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

Svenska Dagbladet var inte bara en ursinnigt antisovjetisk publikation, det var också den tidning den svenska motparten använde mest för att kanalisera sin aktivism; alla dessa ständiga bevislösa historier om Sovjetunionens militära aktiviteter runt Sveriges kust.

Anyone of their age had already spent years in the Hitler Youth being trained to ridicule, taunt, and bully,

She could feel the emotion in the place pressing up against the walls, all eyes alert, hearts beating as one, the sense that everyone there was part of something bigger than themselves. That was a powerful emotion. It was the emotion that the Third Reich relied on. It was the kind of emotion that could move mountains.