Quotes About Propaganda

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.

Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.

You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your King, and you must treat every Frenchman as if he were the Devil himself.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

Unscrupulous agitators have been at work spreading atrocity stories which can only be compared with those lies that were fabricated by the same instigators at the beginning of the Great War.

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.

Speeches made to the people are essential to the arousing of enthusiasm for a war.

Some flag waving is good, a lot of flag waving is tolerable, incessant flag waving is crazy and dangerous and easily manipulated by the war party to get people bubbling at the mouth in fear and rage.

It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.

The Jews caused the war, the Jews caused the outbreak of thieving and robbery all over the country, the Jews caused the inefficiency of the navy

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.