Quotes About Propaganda

Taken all together, 1952 is recalled as one of the bitterest campaigns of the twentieth century, and the one that featured the most mudslinging.

Ihm dröhnte der Kopf von den revolutionären Sprüchen, mit denen sowohl die Schwestern als auch die Ärzte ihn in jeder wachen Stunde eindeckten.

You lie well, and I appreciate the effort it takes. It's not so easy, as any commissar knows.

In a terrified world, false news was king.

The assertion that Americans love violence and bathe in it daily is a self-serving lie promulgated by fundamentalist religious types and America's propaganda-savvy gun-pimps. It's believed by people who don't read novels, play video games, or go to many movies

Jung Chang said that Mao ruled by getting people to hate each other: 'Mao had managed to turn the people into the ultimate weapon of dictatorship. That was why under him there was no real equivalent of the KGB in China. There was no need. In bringing out and nourishing the worst in people, Mao had created a moral wasteland and a land of hatred.

What Hitler and Stalin had in common was the same aspiration that animated the first inquisitors - the simple but deadly notion that it was both possible and desirable to rid the world of anyone whom the regime deemed to be unworthy of life.

Societies work very hard to prevent people from seeing through the veil of myth, fantasy and propaganda which is used to hide the realities of health and disease. For example, the simple fact that the rich live longer and healthier lives than the poor is so easily ignored; society distracts us to consider instead the individual misfortunes and tragedies occurring to poor people.

Music has also been used in time of war. Its purpose was to rally the troops and to plant fear into the minds and hearts of the enemy. This happens once again through the moving of man's emotions.

As Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf put it, propaganda "must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.… [P]ersistence is the first and most important

The enemy must in some way be dehumanized, degraded to less than full human status. Collectively, the population [and soldiers] of the other country must become "gooks," "Nips," "Japs," "Krauts," or "Huns." One must first hide from the full humanity of the opponent before [one] is able to kill him. -- Rev William Mahedy

Wenn die Partei es verlangt, ist ein wahrer Bolschewik bereit zu glauben, dass Schwarz Weiß ist und Weiß Schwarz.«

Journalists say a thing that they know is not true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

heard in communist circles that numbers of Jews were being gassed."45.

the next largest source of information about the Holocaust came from foreign radio broadcasts

half of the German population listened to foreign radio broadcasts at some point, but many only after the fall of Stalingrad.

We only found out about that via the BBC. And because we knew the power of propaganda, we also knew what was suspected of the BBC, that it also understood its craft and must have made a lot of smears. One believed it only in part. There were horrible things reported there, things one could not believe, for example, the mass shootings in the Ukraine, where German soldiers were involved. When we heard that, we didn't believe it,

Whether one believed the reports depended not only on the credibility of the broadcaster but also on one's own experiences with the Nazi regime.

Flyers and leaflets dropped by Allied airplanes during the war informed only a small minority of Germans. This is no accident. Few Germans ever got hold of such fliers, since they were quickly collected by Nazi supporters and members of the Hitler Youth. In addition, the murder of Jews was never a major topic of Allied military propaganda.

If such things were not so dangerous one would laugh. But one recognizes the technique. Such propaganda always begins with words, but soon it proceeds to deeds. When there are no facts to support lies, facts must be made.

the Afghans were well aware of what happened in Iraq during the Gulf War, when the Shiites and Kurds believed the leaflets the Americans dropped urging them to rise up against Saddam Hussein. They did, and the Americans did not come. Saddam's forces had retaliated by massacring the insurgents. "The Afghans in the south fear the same fate—they need to be assured

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

The Nazis were anti-Christian, but they would pretend to be Christians as long as it served their purposes of getting theologically ignorant Germans on their side against the Jews.