Quotes About Propaganda

The UN Human Rights office was once the Soviet Cultural Center, but few Cambodians ever went in there. They were too afraid of the Soviets to want to learn about their culture.

Vote for me, Adolf Hitler, and I'll restore Germany to its rightful glory.

Can anybody point me to that one time in history where the side that was demanding censorship, segregation, propaganda, radical education, papers to move freely in society, plus government forces going door to door to demand compliance were the good guys?

There's no truth in the idea that the Germans had closed ranks, or that they were terrorised by the SS and the Gestapo. Not at all: 60 per cent of the people were Nazis themselves.

Hitler's regime maintained its generally accepted authority in Germany almost until the bitter end. In fact, large parts of the population supported that regime enthusiastically. Resistance was so uncommon that it could easily be nipped in the bud. Propaganda was readily believed, repression was a matter of loving one's country, obedience was the rule, informing on neighbours a patriotic duty.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

In the highly classified manual of dezinformatsiya that codified my life within the Soviet intelligence community, it was proclaimed on the first page, all in upper case letters: "IF YOU ARE GOOD AT DISINFORMATION, YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH ANYTHING.

Dans Horizons rouges, j'ai essayé de peindre la vie quotidienne à la cour d'un dictateur communiste. CeauÈ™escu rêve d'être vénéré comme un nouveau Roi-Soleil, être reconnu par l'Histoire comme le Napoléon roumain et sa femme fait des efforts désespérés pour être considérée comme la déesse roumaine de la sagesse et de l'élégance. (Préface à l'édition française)

A newspaper, a kind of radio. Freedom, the Germans secretly paying him a subsidy.

Any society contains propaganda, but it is important to distinguish this from art and to preserve the purity and independence of the practice of art. A good society contains many different artists doing many different things. A bad society coerces artists because it knows that they can reveal all kinds of truths.

We must not be taken in by the myth of youth, the unending propaganda to the effect that young men are younger than old men; that they are better looking; that they are slimmer, stronger and more athletic; that they can hold a girl in more romantic fashion and speak more sweetly.

They made you believe you had power; they hammered at your brain over the barracks loudspeakers; they commanded you in the name of your country; and they gave you your share of guilt so you could not wash your hands of it but would be forever bound by ties of blood.

The Belascos' garden remained deaf to the defamatory propaganda campaign against the Japanese, who were accused of unfair competition against American farmers and fishermen, threatening white women's virtue with their insatiable lust, and corrupting American society by their Oriental, anti-Christian ways.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Every life is a possession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.

Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.

200,000 ISIS tweets a day, 1,000 investigations in all 50 states. It's really hard to stop all of it. But we have to get control over this Internet propaganda that is poisoning the minds of the United States.

Twenty-five million people who live in North Korea are denied freedom in every respect of their lives. In short, they are hostages. Imagine 25 million hostages.

If you're a website and you want to get attention, you can Hiterlize anything.

Politics, like advertising, is about people selling you things you didn't really want or need.

Bashar Assad clearly doesn't want to hear anything that impugns his government.