Quotes About Propaganda

In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally.

The sad truth about humanity...is that people believe what they're told. Maybe not the first time, but by the hundredth time, the craziest of ideas just becomes a given.

As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me.

At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.

The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.

Truth was a tool. It should never simply be said. No, it had to be bent, twisted, colored, until it became a weapon.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

If all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

A lie is more profitable than the truth. That is why we have elections.

Truth is hard, propaganda is cheap.

Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.

Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.

In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

Disinformation is duping. Misinformation is tricking.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

I call it the politico-legal-media complex. The PLM. And it is dedicated to promoting fear in the population—under the guise of promoting safety.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.

When it comes to controlling humans, there is no better instrument than lies.

We mentioned it later to some people who'd been at the Pacification briefing, someone from the Times and someone from the AP, and they both agreed that the kid from the Big Red One had said more about the Hearts-and-Minds programme than they'd heard in over an hour of statistics, but their bureaus couldn't use his story, they wanted ambassador Komer's. And they got it and you got it.

During the years of Stalin's reign, the Soviet nation made dramatic gains in literacy, industrial wages, health care, and women's rights.

Ehrlichman explained that the Nixon White House "had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. . . . We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

In some songs, like propaganda songs-and don't get me wrong, I love some propaganda songs. They're some of my favorite songs in the world. It's just that I don't enjoy writing it.