Quotes About Propaganda

Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.

The right-wing wants to destroy all the media and replace it with their propaganda.

CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.

Fascism says what you and I experience as facts or what reporters experience as facts are irrelevant. All that matters are impressions and emotions and myths.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.

The left is really good at selling bad ideas and the right is really bad at selling good ideas.

There is no such thing as Dravidian ideology. Some people just made it up, maybe to win elections.

We are living in a world where image-making is important, so we ignore the facts.

To effectively create the image of an enemy you have to show first of all that the enemy is extremely dangerous, but on the other hand less than human.

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward.

During the entire communist era, communist ideology was imposed on children. That was Bolshevism.

There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.

Like many people, I became increasingly alarmed during the 2016 campaign and the first year of the Trump administration by the full-on war being waged on the very idea of truth.

En fait, la doctrine du ciel n'est pas figée. C'est vrai qu'ils ont eu des penchants égalitaristes. Mais tout a changé avec l'arrivée des Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, et quantité d'apôtres de la déréglementation qui ont commencé à faire leur propagande ici-même. - Vous voulez dire qu'aujourd'hui... - Je veux dire qu'aujourd'hui, sous leur influence, le ciel est devenu carrément néo-libéral.

En fait, la doctrine du ciel n'est pas figée. C'est vrai qu'ils ont eu des penchants égalitaristes. Mais tout a changé avec l'arrivée de Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, et quantité d'apôtres de la déréglementation qui ont commencé à faire leur propagande ici même. - Vous voulez dire qu'aujourd'hui... - Je veux dire qu'aujourd'hui, sous leur influence, le ciel est devenu carrément néo-libéral.

The Soviet authorities didn't outlaw climbing completely; they just shifted it from an individual experience, which they categorized as a "relic of bourgeois alpinism," to a collective endeavour that could be manipulated by the propaganda machine.

Republicans have cultivated, into a fine art, the ability to divide people up by race, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation. That's what they do. That is the essence of their politics.

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action

These men - ..., the politicians, ... - use their position, their knowledge, and their power of disseminating misinformation to arouse and stimulate the latent instinct for bloodshed. When they have succeeded, they say they are reluctantly forced to war by the pressure of public opinion.

We are never allowed to forget what the billboards, television, movies and the press would have us remember. From Mademoiselle 1955

Q: Until you actually reached Auschwitz, you had no idea that the deportations to the East were for the purpose of extermination? A: No, I did not know this and we did not know it. We knew very well that the London radio spoke about the gas chambers, but we didn't take it at all seriously. We thought it was propaganda—we didn't believe it was really so.