Quotes About Propaganda

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.

We live in a time of fake news - things that are made up and manufactured.

La consciente e inteligente manipulación de los hábitos organizados y las opiniones de las masas es un elemento importante de la sociedad democrática. Quienes manipulan este desconocido mecanismo de la sociedad constituyen un gobierno invisible que es el verdadero poder en nuestro país... La inteligente minoría necesita hacer uso continuo y sistemático de la propaganda».

remember the two signatures of modern war: (1) You never win, exactly; you claim victory. (2) Perception is paramount.

Never mind that this fellow had been busy that morning shooting scores of people in cold blood,9 the image alone told a simpler, more brutal story, one brandished enthusiastically by the war's opponents.

The Viet Cong were not the idealistic warriors of American antiwar propaganda; they were vicious. They relied on terror.

he was not the first general to welcome statistics he wanted to hear—but the numbers emerged from an intricate origami of war bureaucracy: South Vietnamese, North Vietnamese, and American. The truth was bent at every fold for reasons that went beyond propaganda to self-interest, sycophancy, and wishful thinking.

Hanoi's leaders were virtuoso songbirds of propaganda. They lived in a bubble. There were no voices of dissent in their society to check or challenge wishful thinking.

The absurd body counts and kill ratios were proof of his leadership. He sold them to LBJ, who in turn presented them as fact to the American people.

The adversary must first be made into a demon before people will accept the war. This was why during the Cold War, the U.S. government became infuriated at any

Flugschriften, or "quick writing.

He did not want headlines round the world proclaiming that a ship called 'Germany' had been sunk.

it was even said that Dolores Ibárruri, La Pasionaria, had bitten the jugular of a priest;

His policy of aggression was stated clearly on the very first page. Yet even though every German couple had to purchase a copy on marriage, few seem to have taken his bellicose predictions seriously.

Her Mao tse-tung t-shirt was stretched so tightly across her chest that the Chairman was grinning broadly

They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet.

It's as if we have returned to the era of Protagoras and the sophists, the era when the art of persuasion --for which slogans, commercials, public propaganda meetings, newspapers, cinema, radio are the modern equivalent-- took the place of thought, determined the fate of cities and accomplished coups

Toda la publicidad, toda la propaganda, tan variada en sus formas, que busca excitar el deseo de lo superfluo, tanto en el campo como entre los obreros, debe ser considerada un crimen.

Avec la grande presse et la T.S.F., on peut faire avaler par tout un peuple, en même temps que le petit déjeuner ou le repas du soir, des opinions toutes faites et par là même absurdes, car même des vues raisonnables se déforment et deviennent fausses dans l'esprit qui les reçoit sans réflexion ; mais on ne peut avec ces choses susciter même un éclair de pensée.

As a newspaper man, Doremus remembered that the only reporters who misrepresented and concealed facts more unscrupulously than the Capitalists were the Communists.

Remember our war hysteria, when we called sauerkraut 'Liberty cabbage' and somebody actually proposed calling German measles 'Liberty measles'? And wartime censorship of honest papers? Bad as Russia!

Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

If the situation was hopeless, their propoganda would be unessasary

In North Korea, journalism, the job of telling the stories power and money do not want told, of giving a voice to the voiceless, does not exist.