Quotes About Propaganda

The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.

It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda's task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.

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.

The two chief weapons which parties use in order to obtain success are the newspapers and public associations.

People brought up cruelly (and unfortunately that is still the majority) willingly submit to dictators and cheer them on when they supply them with an enemy they can execrate.

Tudor historians were adept at rewriting history.

a communist conspiracy among the youth ... speakers on campuses/trained to condition idealistic brains

Brainwash cried Romney, the Governor of Pollution

Mothers weep and Sons be dumb your brothers and children murder the beautiful yellow bodies of Indochina in dreams invented for your eyes by TV

HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

He said: 'You don't understand. We never thought that we were being used to conquer people. Not at all: we thought the opposite. We were told that we were freeing those people. That is what they said—that we were going to set those people free from their bad kings or their evil customs or some such thing. We believed it because they believed it too. It took us a long time to understand that in their eyes freedom exists wherever they rule.

nothing proclaims disunity like shrill proclamations of unity on every corner.

It's a newsbill. They tell you what's happening.' Orso thought about that. 'Or they tell you what to think about what's happening.' He thought more. 'Or the really successful ones just confirm what you already think about what's happening.

Laž se može pretvoriti u istinu ako se izvikuje dovoljo ?esto.

FOX said the Dragon had been set loose by ISIS, using spores that had been invented by the Russians in the 1980s. MSNBC said sources indicated the 'scale might've been created by engineers at Halliburton and stolen by culty Christian types fixated on the Book of Revelation. CNN reported both sides.

I chiefly concern myself with those who seldom get a hearing, & I don't feel it is incumbent on me to balance their voices with the well-crafted apologetics of the powerful. The powerful are generally excellently served by the mainstream media or propaganda organs. The powerful should be quoted, yes, but to measure their pronouncements against the truth, not to obscure it.

Given what we know today about Stalin's crimes against his own people, it is hard to imagine that as late as 1947, most Americans saw "Uncle Joe's" USSR as an ally. Since Germany's invasion of Russia in June 1941, the Soviet Union joined with the Allies and bore the brunt of the fighting.

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

Hitler was therefore determined to trump the enemy in the art of propaganda. He was a brilliant popular orator and drew huge crowds. He knew there was no better way to incite a mob to action than to give them a scapegoat, someone they could blame for their suffering, and he found one in the Jews.

It might benefit all of us to realise that systematically forcing the individual to misplace their attention is a hallmark of fascism

Once you infantilise the common political narrative, it becomes easier to mobilise the masses, and from then on you can promise them anything.

But The Preacher operated on the theory that if you told a big enough lie often enough, people would accept it as the truth.