Propaganda Quotes

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man b...

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just dra...

Yes, our country has its shortcomings, but there's no moral equivalency between democracy and totali...

Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia...

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufactu...

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but of...

Say the very simplest and most obvious things, say them as often as possible, and put into the sayin...

Thus all art is propaganda and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter sh...

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

As a people, we have been tolled farther and farther away from the facts of what we have done by the...

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

In terms of "quiet" bourgeois democracy two fundamental possibilities are open to the industrial wor...

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence pr...

La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propagan...

On the levels of politics and theology, beauty is perfectly compatible with nonsense and tyranny. Wh...

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

The media—stenographers to power.

For the moment, I am relying on the authority of Cahir aep Ceallach, the only soldier in our company...

We're told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It's possible th...

We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone e...

Watching Paris is Burning, I began to think that the many yuppie-looking, straight -acting, pushy, p...

The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage ...

By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself.

All governments lie, as I.F. Stone pointed out, including Israel and Hamas. But Israel engages in th...

As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phr...

I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the...

Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-a...

Sooner or later, all talk among foreigners in Pyongyang turns to one imponderable subject. Do the lo...

[I]n 1919, 1920 and 1921, the whole Israelite press stormed the Romanian state unleashing everywhere...

Was man wünscht, das glaubt auch jeder.

I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on ...

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth...

I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and th...

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were li...

In April war was declared with Germany. Wilson and his cabinet—a cabinet that in its lack of distinc...

How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern th...

The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your crit...

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their ...

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then th...

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselv...

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no tr...

The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which i...

The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definit...

Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides ...

Nowhere in the world, Rud reflected, was journalism anything but a malignant and wanton power. Later...

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led t...

As these contrasts show, capitalism has undergone enormous changes in the last two and a half centur...

There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of t...

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. T...

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues ...

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life i...

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch...

For nearly thirty years the powerful propaganda machines of Stalinism worked furiously to expunge Tr...

Our market-intensive societies measure material progress by the increase in the volume and variety o...

Nowadays, it is true, we have mass media and expert propaganda to spread suspicion and fear. But the...

I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than...

The propagandist naturally cannot reveal the true intentions of the principal for whom he acts... Th...

They shouldnt teach their immigrants' kids all about democracy unless they mean to let them have a l...

I like it too," Angelo said. "I love this country. Much you and anybody, and you know it.""I know it...

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflec...

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist prop...

The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or ...

Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit ...

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

The real propaganda is what—if we are genuinely a living member of a nation—we tell ourselves becaus...

The new fashions sold in departmentstores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you ...

In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously. They are all forced, an...

The method of addition is quite charming if it involves adding to the self such things as a cat, a d...

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in ...

The ritual denunciation of the so-called ‘socialist’ states is replete with distortions and often ou...

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an...

A propaganda model has a certain initial plausibility on guided free-market assumptions that are not...

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We ...

I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the ...