Quotes About Propaganda

France is fighting for 'La Patrie'; England is fighting for commerce; Italy is fighting to get a slice of Austria, and America is fighting for souvenirs.

There is another way for moneyed interests to get what they want out of government: convince the 99 percent that they have shared interests. This strategy requires an impressive sleight of hand; in many respects the interests of the 1 percent and the 99 percent differ markedly. The fact that the 1 percent has so successfully shaped public perception testifies to the malleability of beliefs. When others engage in it, we call it "brainwashing" and "propaganda."1

Esos ataques y el empeño de crear una realidad alternativa han sido siempre una parte constitutiva del fascismo, desde la gran mentira de los Goebbels en adelante.

In Communist countries they take writers very seriously—so seriously that they often kill them.

Adolf Hitler, who had done such a great job of combating un-American activities in Germany.

The war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boy on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country .

George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 than anything else.

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.

It was surprising enough when strangely dressed religious leaders took over the government of such a large country as Iran. But now, these bin Ladenists? The tactics they've used are bloodthirsty, sadistic. They shamelessly show their pleasure when their enemies are killed. They touch their victims, they look at their faces. They film the killings! These are all things that we would never do--well, except on very rare occasions, like the time we killed bin Laden himself.

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it.

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct a propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event. Access to the real environment must be limited, before anyone can create a pseudo-environment that he thinks wise or desirable.

we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is, but what it supposes to be the fact.

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible.

The General Staff of an army in the field is so placed that within wide limits it can control what the public will perceive. It controls the selection of correspondents who go to the front, controls their movements at the front, reads and censors their messages from the front, and operates the wires.

We have learned to call this propaganda. A group of men, who can prevent independent access to the event, arrange the news of it to suit their purpose. That the purpose was in this case patriotic does not affect the argument at all. They used their power to make the Allied publics see affairs as they desired them to be seen. The

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct a propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event. Access to the real environment must be limited, before anyone can create a pseudo-environment that he thinks wise or desirable. For while people who have direct access can misconceive what they see

By putting the dead Germans in the focus of the picture, and by omitting to mention the French dead, a very special view of the battle was built up. It was a view designed to neutralize the effects of German territorial advances and the impression of power which the persistence of the offensive was making.

In order to conduct a propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event. Access to the real environment must be limited, before anyone can create a pseudo-environment that he thinks wise or desirable. For

In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.

I walked around and saw writing on the walls, like: "There is no God but Bashar," and "Assad, or we'll burn down the country.

If you could hear, at every jolt, the bloodCome gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cudOf vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—My friend, you would not tell with such high zestTo children ardent for some desperate glory,The old Lie: Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.