Quotes About Propaganda

The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.

Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totalitarianism…There's no moral equivalency between propaganda and the truth.

Disinformation is distinguished from misinformation in that it is intentionally fraudulent.

A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

Today Christians... stand at the head of Germany... We want to fill our culture again with the Christian Spirit.

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

The public could be made to want anything, if it were sold to them the right way.

It is a great tool of dictators and tyrants, who want to get masses of people to do what they want, to make sure there are no libraries...The fact that there was no public library in Rwanda is one reason why genocide was possible.

He was, as the novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair wrote, "willing by deliberate and shameful lies, made out of whole cloth, to stir nations to enmity and drive them to murderous war.

The Cheka relied on its fearsome reputation. Pravda carried reports of Cheka victims being flayed alive, impaled, scalped, crucified, tied to planks that were pushed slowly into roaring furnaces or into containers of boiling water. In winter, the Cheka was said to pour water over naked prisoners, creating ice statues, while some prisoners were said to have their necks twisted to such a degree their heads came off.107 True or not, such tales contributed to the Cheka mystique.

Over the years you have been subjected to a great deal of mind propaganda which has resulted in you reaching the ceiling of maximum potential by virtue of your current limited mindset.

Art is edited truth — edited to give it shape, rhythm, speed and punch. I've quoted the Communist dictum before: "If it isn't art, it isn't propaganda." Art is skill in the service of passion.

Dictators never accepted failure. They preferred to have their mistakes forgotten, overshadowed with spectacle.

Words are the true weapons of mass destruction

Blood, blood, and destruction, destruction," bin Laden crowed as the tape concluded. "We give you the good news that the forces of Islam are coming."21

What made him mad was the constant drumming on CNN, telling everybody that the economy was just fine. The news media, or whatever they were calling themselves these days, had become nothing but a mouthpiece for the federal government, parroting press releases from the White House. If the president took a crap in public, they'd report that he shit gold bricks. If

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

Protest actions and propaganda are two slightly different things.

TV and film are always slipping in political messages, not ones designed to bring us together but to divide us.

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed.

We see North Koreans as automatons, goose-steeping at parades, doing mass gymnastics with fixed smiles on their faces - but beneath all that, real life goes on with the same complexity of human emotion as anywhere else.