Quotes About Propaganda

If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

The truth is the best propaganda.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

There is nothing so absurd that it cannot be believed as truth if repeated often enough.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

The truth is not what we received today. Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise.

Truth is whatever people will believe.

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.