Quotes About Propaganda

Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their interests as narrowly as possible.This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and is not desirable.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

All our advertising is propaganda, of course, but it has become so much a part of our life, is so pervasive, that we just don't know what it is propaganda for.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.

The only propaganda which will ever tend to weaken itself as the world becomes more sophisticated and intelligent, is propaganda that is untrue or unsocial.

Propaganda mainly tells us that Bernays's true métier was to help giant players with their various sales and image problems.

It is the purpose of this book to explain the structure of the mechanism which controls the public mind, and to tell how it is manipulated by the special pleader who seeks to create public acceptance for a particular idea or commodity. It will attempt at the same time to find the due place in the modern democratic scheme for this new propaganda and to suggest its gradually evolving code of ethics and practice.

The great Allied campaign to celebrate (or sell) Democracy, etc., was a venture so successful, and, it seemed, so noble, that it suddenly legitimized such propagandists, who, once the war had ended, went right to work massaging or exciting various publics on behalf of entities like General Motors, Procter & Gamble, John D. Rockefeller, General Electric.

Like its wartime prototype, the post-war propaganda drive was an immense success, as it persuaded not just businessmen but journalists and politicians that "the manufacture of consent," in Walter Lippmann's famous phrase, was a necessity throughout the public sphere.

That propaganda easily seduces even those whom it most horrifies is a paradox that Bernays grasped completely; and it is one that we must try at last to understand, if we want to change the world that Edward Bernays, among others, made for us.

Propaganda is aimed mainly at Bernays's potential corporate clientele. And yet the author variously masks that plutocratic bias.

The truth is that while it appears to be forming the public opinion on fundamental matters, the press is often conforming to it.

The only difference between "propaganda" and "education," really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.

Propaganda is a purposeful, directed effort to overcome censorship—the censorship of the group mind and the herd reaction.

Convenient mythologies require neither evidence nor logic.

The anti-Communist control mechanism reaches through the system to exercise a profound influence on the mass media. In normal times as well as in periods of Red scares, issues tend to be framed in terms of a dichotomized world of Communist and anti-Communist powers, with gains and losses allocated to contesting sides, and rooting for "our side" considered an entirely legitimate news practice.

Fool the public; rule the republic.

Unscrupulous leaders can manipulate this mechanism in whole populations. Adolf Hitler, for example, repeatedly described the Jews as Untermenschen (subhumans) and through the skilful use of propaganda was able to induce enough Germans to project their shadow on to them as to make the Holocaust possible. The

In Soviet eyes the definition of 'fascist' included anyone who did not follow the orders of the Communist Party.

Anything can be made to be said through paid workers on any occasion in favour or against anyone.

Fools speak energetically and talk enthusiastically amongst themselves only on the topic which the news channels keep force feeding into their mind.

He who could actually see would believe only that which is seen through his soul and not that which is shown through mass campaign by media like newspaper, portal and tv.

Media created wilful sensation or someone's propagated wrong information can poison the minds of people only to the extent of content of selfish intention in each person's life.

Perhaps no one makes more fools than the news.