Quotes About Propaganda

The fuhrer decided he would rule the world with words. I will never fire a gun, he said, I will not have to. Still, he was not rash. Let's allow him at least that much. He was not a stupid man at all. His first plan of attack was to plant the words in as many areas of his homeland as possible.

Yes, the Führer decided that he would rule the world with words. "I will never fire a gun," he devised. "I will not have to." Still, he was not rash. Let's allow him at least that much. He was not a stupid man at all. His first plan of attack was to plant the words in as many areas of his homeland as possible.

The brown-shirted extremist members of the NSDAP (otherwise known as the Nazi Party) had marched down Munich Street, their banners worn proudly, their faces held high, as if on sticks. Their voices were full of song, culminating in a roaring rendition of Deutschland über Alles. Germany over Everything

The misleading effect of books like George Orwell's 1984 is to project into the future a state of affairs that already exists.

Robert Conquest once suggested that 'a curious little volume might be made of the poems of Stalin, Castro, Mao and Ho Chi Minh, with illustrations by A. Hitler.

Q: What's the difference between a Communist car and a Communist proselytizer? A: You can close the door on a Communist proselytizer.

The fact was that facts were losing their value. Stalin had broken the opposition. He was also far advanced toward his much stranger objective of breaking the truth. Or it may have been the other way about: actuality, under Stalin, was such that dread and disgust forbade you to accept it— or even to contemplate it.

One of the great needs of mankind is to be lifted above the morass of false propaganda.

The addiction to the Soviet myth is as tenacious and difficult to cure as any other addiction.

Newcomers from Paris transmitted to us Goebbels' ironic congratulations on our cordial reception in the Land of Freedom. Voelkischer Beobachter, the official Nazi organ, published a list of anti-Nazi authors interned in France, asking them whether they still clung to the blessings of democracy. It was cheap irony, but it cut to the quick; it hurt and stung and burnt.

The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying.

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds & then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the "Nation," it's time for all of us to sit up and worry.

The era of manufacturing consent has given way to the era of manufacturing news. Soon media newsrooms will drop the pretence, and start hiring theatre directors instead of journalists.

In an unconscious gesture of television-enforced democracy

Why should propaganda be the exclusive preserve of the Western media? Just because they do it better?

And now, resorting to the same old scare tactics, the same tired falsehoods and the same old fake news about nuclear weapons, it is gearing up to bomb Iran. That will be the biggest mistake it has ever made.

We're taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don't have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

And it is that one percent, the heads of large corporations, who control the policies of news media and determine what you and I hear on radio, read in the newspapers, see on television. It is more important for us to think about where the media gets its information.

El lector del conjunto de esta obra descubrirá más fácilmente por sí mismo los lazos fortísimos que además le unen al sistema comunista mundial, y a su jefe de filas soviético. Muchos fenómenos que han llamado nuestra atención (la «página en blanco», esa nostalgia del reinicio absoluto, de la tabla rasa; el culto y la manipulación de la juventud) pueden encontrarse fácilmente bajo otros cielos.

To restore Cleopatra is as much to salvage the few facts as to peel away the encrusted myth and the hoary propaganda.

WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. The Three Slogans of the Party George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Schönerer, he related in Mein Kampf how much he had learned during his years in Vienna from watching the mayor's skill in flattering the urban proletariat, and in understanding that the less propaganda is based on intellectual appeals and reason, and the more on "the emotions of the masses, the more effective it will be.