Quotes About Propaganda

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

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 information weapon, of course, is used in critical moments, and war is always a critical moment.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Cartoons, if you ask me, are the most powerful weapon in today's politics. Balasaheb Thackeray has proved this.

Public diplomacy was an effective Cold War weapon.

Social media is not only the most important tool for inciting terrorists, it can also be an effective weapon against them.

Social media constitute the most powerful readily accessible communications weapon Hamas has in its arsenal.

If you are looking to create an information weapon, the battle space you operate in is social media. That is where the fight happens.

I think there are many times when it would be most efficient to use nuclear weapons. However, the public opinion in this country and throughout the world throw up their hands in horror when you mention nuclear weapons, just because of the propaganda that's been fed to them.

People get so terrified that the government might take their guns away that they stockpile as much as they can afford. They've been led to believe that there will be an outright ban of guns, so they drink the NRA propaganda and spend their money on more weapons.

I want to make sure those who view despicable terrorist content online, including jihadi websites, far-right propaganda, and bomb-making instructions, face the full force of the law.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake news reports on television during the Bush presidency. It was a really good tour. It seemed maybe about a week too long.

The goals of Russia since 1917 have been to destroy capitalism, discredit democracy, and show that Communist collectivism was the greatest social and political system in the world.

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive.

When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.

Some of these pro-drug messages come from popular culture.

Whatever the Victorians did right in England, we need to resuscitate over here. In the late 19th century, the entire English population were propagandised into buying into a certain code of morals. I would be happy if we could emulate that in some way in America.

Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not outright lies.

Political dictatorships take possession not just of money and belongings but of narrative.