Quotes About Propaganda

For governments at war, the media is an instrument of war or an element in war that is to be controlled.

There is no difference between Western media and Nazi propaganda.

Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

The White House is a historical BS factory."

Of all of these anti-homeostatic factors in society, the control of the means of communication is the most effective and most important.

no podía dejar de pensar en aquella frase de Adolf Hitler: «Si desea la simpatía de las masas, tiene que decirles las cosas más estúpidas y crudas.» Ese desprecio,

The most effective kind of propaganda is defined as the kind where the subject moves in the direction you desire for reasons which he believes to be his own.

The world by its advertisements, its conversation, and its philosophy is engaged in a gigantic brainwashing task . . . The Christian is beset by secular and worldly propaganda.

You can get arrested if you live in Russia, and you say that there is war in Ukraine. You can only say "special operation". There is a popular joke in Russia: Tolstoy's War and Peace should be now renamed Special Operation and Peace.

In war, truth is the first casualty. —AESCHYLUS

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by anybody, including dictators.

I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.

Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft and through a tremendous level of effort toward propaganda - to present an image of Reagan that is so much larger-than-life that it sort of blinds us all, and keeps us all in a warm, happy, nostalgic state, thinking of a man who can do no wrong.

As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East.

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.

The pro-gun propaganda peddled by the National Rifle Association feeds myths about gun ownership, and these myths arguably perpetuate the suffering of thousands of Americans each year.

In this war on truth we are all living in, 'hoax' is a potent, malicious, ugly little word and Trump has been using it more every year. So has Fox.

Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

The work of Cambridge Analytica is not equivalent to traditional marketing. Cambridge Analytica specialized in disinformation, spreading rumors, kompromat, and propaganda.

RSS is an organization that is trained in spreading lies and creating communal clashes.