Quotes About Propaganda

Communists love to make films about composers, because composers compose music and don't talk subversive things.

A filmmaker named Robert Goldstein was imprisoned for showing the British in a bad light in a movie about the American War of Independence.

Goering's on the phone to Freiburg - Says, Willie's done quite a job - Hitler's on the phone from Berlin - Says, I'm gonna make you a STAR!

Old lady judges watch people in pairs Limited in sex, they dare To push fake morals, insult and stare While money doesn't talk, it swears Obscenity, who really cares Propaganda, all is phony.

They said smart bombs would do the job, but they didn't either, contrary to what CNN and the Discovery channel tout on their specials.

at 6:03 a.m., Trump had tweeted: "Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump campaign—'quietly working to boost Clinton.' So where is the investigation A.G. [attorney general]" It was clearly Russian propaganda, McMaster said.

I think that collectivization was an erroneous and unsuccessful measure and it was impossible to admit the error. To conceal the failure people had to be cured, by every means of terrorism, of the habit of thinking and judging for themselves, and forced to see what didn't exist, to assert the very opposite of what their eyes told them.

Or again, take your red banner. You think it's a flag, isn't that what you think? Well, it isn't a flag. It's the purple kerchief of the death woman, she uses it for luring. And why for luring? She waves it and she nods and winks and lures young men to come and be killed, then she sends famine and plague. That's what it is. And you went and believed her. You thought it was a flag. You thought it was: Come to me, all ye poor and proletarians of the world.

Stalin } took care always to say the opposite of what he did, and do the opposite of what he said.

Built on a twisted form of extreme patriotism, it's fueled by racial hatred, mass propaganda, conspiracy theories, the demonizing of minority groups, and the cult of personality around a narcissistic leader. Under the influence of this ideology

He started by using his wealth to co-opt anyone who could have any impact on popular culture or public opinion. Newspapers, actors, journalists, publishers, politicians, business people, unions—you name it. The idea was to be able to control the media, as well as any other voices Americans trusted. "They knew they needed to change the way Americans saw themselves. It's ideological

To stress the negative aspect of self-discipline is to contribute to the vast amount of indirect propaganda which is made, in our society, against the spiritual life.

the evidence is there. Thought control is, to a free people, a cardinal sin. It is dangerous because focused propaganda can be effective. This is why the best teachers insist on a broad range of learning, most especially including skepticism. We must teach our students to use caution when they are exposed to ideologies that have followers whose enthusiasm clouds their judgment.

T)he political response to terror must always be to increase and to promote freedom. The battle is truly for hearts and minds and should be waged with all the propaganda tools available to a prosperous democracy.

Las "libertades políticas" no son nada sin las libertades o la autonomia económica, sea en el terreno individual, o en el colectivo. En este último, porque en régimen democrático son los grupos en posesión de riqueza quienes controlan la prensa y todos los demás medios de formación de la "opinión pública" y de la propaganda.

You had to hand it to those reformers: They concocted better stories than the ones at the nickel theaters.

I'd be willing to bet that any incursion throughout history in which the invading country has proclaimed it is bringing benefits to the conquered is based on a lie.

Saddam Hussein and people like him were very much involved in 9/11.

Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.

It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

The Russian government imposed my head on the body of Russian models in straight jackets.

We defeated communist Japan.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

In every combat unit and in every village, legions of political commissioners are at work enlightening the people on issues which have become stumbling blocks of incomprehension