Quotes About Propaganda

The popular tendency is to listen approvingly to the most extreme statements and claims of politicians and orators who seek popularity by declaring their own country right in everything and other countries wrong in everything.

One of the most troubling things about the term 'fake news' is that it has become a force field against accusations you don't like.

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.

A lot of people of my Ulster Protestant background would have been very suspicious of the notion of a film about Bloody Sunday. Our fear would have been that it would be terribly anti-Britain and anti-soldiers: a piece of nationalist propaganda.

Yevtushenko is a high member of his country's establishment, and he lies terribly about the United States to his Russian readers.

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.

What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

Much of what we regard as truth in the war on terror is actually rather suspect.

It is a cause of grave concern that the cyber world is being exploited by terror groups such as DAESH or ISIS to radicalise the gullible youth of our country.

In the West we are constantly hit with music of Middle Eastern descent signifying terror, intrigue or sorrow.

Social media serve as the propaganda machine of 21st century terror, and this is apparent in the Middle East.

All terrorism is theater.

The battle against terrorism is not only a military fight but primarily a battle of information.

Hate speech is a specie of terrorism.

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.

Through the Internet, ISIS and other terrorist groups reach people they wouldn't ordinarily be able to reach.

When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.

We obviously know that terrorist groups have become very reliant on social media.

Depicting a terrorist act in a film isn't going to incite terrorism.

I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.

When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything.

It is good that these terrorists are now facing justice, but in the reporting of the case, it would be helpful if the media didn't help them with their propaganda mission by unquestioningly repeating false information about their detention.

Al Jazeera has abandoned even the semblance of a credible media outlet, and it broadcasts - both within Gaza and outside it, to the world - anti-Semitic incitement, lies, provocation, and encouragement to terrorists.