Quotes About Propaganda

toiled day in, day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. There was a certain fitness in this, since her own husband had been vaporized a couple of years earlier.

The Party claimed, for example, that today 40 per cent of adult proles were literate: before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been 15 per cent. The Party claimed that the infant mortality rate was now only 160 per thousand, whereas before the Revolution it had been 300—and so it went on. It was like a single equation with two unknowns.

LA GUERRE C'EST LA PAIX LA LIBERTÉ C'EST L'ESCLAVAGE L'IGNORANCE C'EST LA FORCE

The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.

He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Entonces, ¿hemos recuperado nuevamente lo que teníamos antes? -preguntó Boxer. - Esa es nuestra victoria -agregó Squealer.

There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime, and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.

referring to Russian commissars as "half-gramophones, half-gangsters.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well.

Dans 1984, le système est déjà bien mis en place, la dictature absolue fonctionne sans accrocs et pénètre jusque dans l'esprit des individus, le chef est devenu une entité abstraite et lointaine qui n'est plus présente que par ses icônes, la dictature s'exerce par le biais d'une police omniprésente qui passe son temps à récrire l'histoire et à traquer les moindres miettes de pensée libre.

I thought it idiotic that people fighting for their lives should have separate parties; my attitude always was, 'Why can't we drop all this political nonsense and get on with the war?' This of course was the correct 'anti-Fascist' attitude which had been carefully disseminated by the English newspapers, largely in order to prevent people from grasping the real nature of the struggle.

How could you have a slogan like 'freedom is slavery' when the concept of freedom has been abolished?

This aim was frankly admitted in the Newspeak word duckspeak, meaning "to quack like a duck." Like various other words in the B vocabulary, duckspeak was ambivalent in meaning. Provided

Before the Revolution they had been hideously oppressed by the capitalists, they had been starved and flogged, women had been forced to work in the coal mines (women still did work in the coal mines, as a matter of fact), children had been sold into the factories at the age of six. But simultaneously, true to the principles of doublethink, the Party taught that the proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules.

Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting.

he could not—take the sterile and dishonest line of pretending that in every war both sides are exactly the same and it makes no difference who wins.

Todo el secreto estaba en pasarse de unos a otros la doctrina secreta de que dos y dos son cuatro.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

It is an extraordinary thing but it is true, wars are only a means of publicising the things already accomplished.

It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other.

Putin responds to threats, to illegal sanctions, and to incessant propaganda with statements that governments need to respect each other's national interests and to work together for common benefit. No politician in the West speaks in this way.

Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it.

The Soviet Union used the exploitation of workers under capitalism as an agitational issue to subvert Western democracies even as it practiced slave labor at home.