Quotes About Propaganda

I have said that propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation have always been part of political warfare. Social media and other new platforms have given it a new life and reach through which the fake news phenomenon can reach everywhere.

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

If you think the Obama White House and Ben Rhodes lying to the American people about Iran - and laughing about it - was bad, just wait until Hillary Clinton's spin doctors get hold of the media.

Modi's masterstroke has always been to blur the battlelines and construct an artificial enemy one that plays into primal instincts of pride and insecurity.

Fake news is cheap to produce. Genuine journalism is expensive.

I kept having the producers of 'Fog in August' take out some of the Nazi terms and phrases. I don't want audiences to look at this doctor and say, 'He is a Nazi monster' and think that it has nothing to do with our lives today.

Liberals spend a whole lot of time trying to convince us they love teachers, but dig even skin deep into the matter, and it becomes evident that liberals hate teachers.

You never discount a demagogue.

When we make political films, there are people with political opinions. They try to discredit you and run you down.

Radio has always been just disgusting.

I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.

The right can distort anything it wants.

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

BJP can only divide and terrorize people.

If you can make people believe lies are the facts, then you can control them.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Don't believe the fake media.

False stories can be promulgated more easily when the people trying to tell true stories have been discredited - or when they are battered by rubber bullets.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

Fearmongering has always happened, which, through technology, is being spread faster.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.