Quotes About Propaganda

La noticia «Houben corre los cien metros en 10,6» despertaba exactamente las mismas sensaciones que en su época el titular «Capturados veinte mil rusos», y «Peltzer gana el campeonato inglés y bate el récord mundial» equivalía incluso a acontecimientos que, ¡ay!, jamás habían tenido lugar durante la guerra, como «París conquistada» o «Inglaterra solicita la paz». Yo

en las playas. Los nazis aprovecharon sobremanera esta circunstancia con fines propagandísticos: «Venid y contemplad nuestro alegre país, tranquilo y normal. Venid y contemplad lo bien que continúa yéndoles incluso a los judíos».

Después de todo pienso que entonces, en febrero de 1933, no se puede tomar a mal el hecho de que la mayoría de alemanes se creyera la teoría del incendio comunista. Lo que sí se les puede reprochar, y en lo que consiste su primera y terrible debilidad de carácter colectivo durante la época nazi, es que después de aquello el asunto quedó solucionado.

La población, en definitiva, debía acostumbrarse a vitorear y a ponerse en pie aunque no tuviese ningún motivo real para ello. A su vez, esto fue razón suficiente para que –¡psst!–, todos los días y todas las noches por medio de látigos de acero y taladros percutores se causara la muerte de quienes no participaban con bastante energía. Así que vitoreemos y ululemos con los lobos, heil, heil! Además se le acababa cogiendo el gusto.

Saint Marx, in whom one had always believed, had not helped. Saint Hitler was obviously more powerful. So let's destroy the images of Saint Marx on the altars and replace them with images of Saint Hitler. Let us learn to pray: "It is the Jews' fault" rather than "It is the capitalists' fault." Perhaps that will redeem us.

Nothing is more misleading than to call Hitler a Fascist. Fascism is upper-class rule, buttressed by artificially manufactured mass enthusiasm

The American people deserve to know that they're not just watching the administration's spin on their local newscasts -- they're paying for it, too.

Jede Propaganda ist so gefährlich wie die Dummheit, auf die sie trifft.

The initials of the Communist Party in the 1930s, VKP, were read by peasant wits to stand for "Second serfdom" (Vtoroe Krepostnoe Pravo), while in the reading of some Leningrad youths the initials of the USSR itself—SSSR [CCCP] in Russian—became "Stalin's death will save Russia" (Smert' Stalina Spaset Rossiiu).

Pornography as propaganda, according to feminist analysis, represents women as objects who love to be abused, and teaches men practices of degradation and abuse to carry out upon women.

Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy.

The victor will not be asked later whether he had spoken the truth or not. —Adolf Hitler

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

The new fashions sold in department stores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see. They'd been displaced by immigrant girls doing piecework for a pittance in terrible sweatshops. I refused to patronize a garment industry that exploited its desperately poor workers so heartlessly. And if that wasn't enough to keep me out of stores, there was this as well: I was determined to resist that shameless sister of war propaganda— the advertising industry.

Propaganda seeks to destroy art in order to sanitize culture.

What distinguishes a totalitarian ideology is its utterly insular quality. It purports to explain the entire world and everything in it.

Science gradually yielded to propaganda, and as a result propaganda tended more and more to represent itself as science.

The existence of alternative facts had become policy.

Many of the smartest people and most creative talents are working for the brainwashers, using dazzling images, sex and violence to rob us of our sanity.

Fox News isn't something you can tune out, like a game show or a cable movie you've seen a dozen times. The colors, the moving logos, the giant fonts, the . . . well . . . the things they actually say. It's like the television equivalent of one of those cymbal-banging monkey toys being duct-taped to your forehead.

One of the ugliest characteristics of today's world is the mixture of frantic war preparations with hysterical peace propaganda, and the fact that both come from the same source—from the same political philosophy. If mankind is ever to achieve peace, the first step will be made when people realize that today's peace movements are not advocates of peace.

enormes titulares, sus imágenes explícitas y sus textos excesivamente simplificados noqueaban los sentidos y entraban en la consciencia de las personas sin necesidad del proceso intermedio de la razón, como si la comida fuese disparada al recto sin tener que pasar por la digestión.

the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

algunos de los regímenes más despiadados y autoritarios del mundo han exigido de sus súbditos un optimismo irredento y un constante buen humor.