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Quotes About Propaganda

The American media wants to pump you full of fear.
~ Michael Moore
The idea that fear can manipulate people and you can use fear in the media to get what you want is happening right now. I think it has a lot of relevance between 2017 and 70's.
~ Rebecca Hall
Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control.
~ Reza Aslan
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
~ Joseph Goebbels
There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.
~ Joseph Goebbels
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
~ Unknown
We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals
~ Joseph Goebbels
During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.
~ Joseph Goebbels
World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.
~ Marshall McLuhan
You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.
~ William Randolph Hearst
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
~ Howard Thurman
When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.
~ Jean-Marie Le Pen
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
~ George Orwell
The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.
~ William Colby
You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)
~ Robert Capa
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
~ George Orwell, 1984
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.
~ Michael Parenti
Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs!
~ William Halsey
It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.
~ Julius Streicher
Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
~ Adolf Hitler
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor.
~ William Shakespeare
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
~ Hiram Johnson
You actually cannot sell the idea of freedom, democracy, diversity, as if it were a brand attribute and not reality -- not at the same time as you're bombing people, you can't.
~ Naomi Klein
The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
~ Wilfred Owen