Quotes About Propaganda

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.

Russians accuse Mao of seeking "world holocaust.

The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.

A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society… We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

men are very largely actuated by motives which they conceal from themselves…It is evident that the successful propagandist must understand the true motives and not be content to accept the reasons which men give for what they do.

During a campaign the air is full of speeches - and vice versa.

Remember the Maine!

Apart from the massacres, deaths and famines for which communism was responsible, the worst thing about the system was the official lying: that is to say the lying in which everyone was forced to take part, by repetition, assent or failure to contradict. I came to the conclusion that the purpose of propaganda in communist countries was not to persuade, much less to inform, but to humiliate and emasculate.

Werner is beginning to see, approaching his sixteenth birthday, that what the führer really requires is boys. Great rows of them walking to the conveyor belt to climb on.

It's 1940 and no one laughs at the Hitler Youth now.

It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio. —Joseph Goebbels

A portrait of the führer glowers over every classroom.

The true Aryan is as blond as Hitler, as slim as Göring, and as tall as Goebbels—

But now the idea that Rome had an imperial destiny was one of the ways by which the regime justified itself in the public mind.

One of the reasons why Gadafy's dictatorship has managed to remain in power for so long is not just because it has shown itself to be able to exact a great deal of violence, both psychological and physical, on its people, but because it has been very successful at imposing a narrative, a story.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then.

Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children.

You think that the CNN hosts can aggressively challenge government officials? I don't think so. It doesn't look that way at all. And of course, when you get to Fox News, they're a whole different animal: they're purely propaganda.