Quotes About Propaganda

Corporate advertising is simply expensive lying dressed up as brainwashing

The rise of Donald Trump is what happens when you build Potemkin villages in Weimar republics.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

It was the video no one wanted to see, that few people could bear to watch. A young American, James Foley, was on his knees next to a masked, black-clad jihadist. The jihadist was holding a knife. Foley began reciting a prepared text—delivered under the ultimate duress—condemning America. When he finished, he visibly braced himself. We all knew what was coming.

Propaganda is a soft weapon hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.

È così, ad esempio, che è appena nata la sedia elettrica: da una controcampagna pubblicitaria.

Fascism is theater.

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

Intr-o faimoasa previziune, A. Huxley a ironizat spiritele prefabricate: de la nasterea sa, copilul este conditionat prin difuzoare care ating subconstientul sau, apoi de scoala si societate care il orienteaza infailibil spre sertarul care ii este destinat. El a propovaduit educatia contra propagandei: formarea spiritelor inzestrate cu putere de alegere, a oamenilor constienti si responsabili.

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

Propaganda is a weapon that the Confederacy wields best, and wields heaviest. It is their hammer. And when all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

Sorry, ma'am, but we need a big damn army right now, and there's no better way to make one than to gather up a bunch of boys and tell them how much fun they're going to have killing their enemy.

Walt Disney admired Mussolini and in 1938 quietly hosted Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, a month after Kristallnacht.

Armies and governments the world over have a definite technique for provoking hate. By speeches and films and other kinds of propaganda they create an image of the enemy in which he is the incarnation of evil, the symbol of suffering, the fountainhead of the cruelty and injustice of all times.

Politics isn't about reality, it's about what you can make people believe is real.

a cultura para massas surripia quanto pode da sensibilidade e da imaginação popu­lar para compensá-la com um lazer mínimo, entrecortado de imagens e slogans de propaganda.

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.

Cambridge Analytica will try to pick at whatever mental weakness or vulnerability that we think you have and try to warp your perception of what's real around you.