Quotes tagged ‘Propaganda’

“65 percent of “anti-vaccine content” on Facebook and Twitter originated from twelve influencers within the anti-vaxxer movement.”

— Matt Binder, mashable.com

“Furthermore, all the Western politicians, intellectuals, and journalists are obliged to pay homage and bow to the monument that commemorates those allegedly killed in the Nazi concentration camps. In other words, all should acknowledge the veracity of something that has not been proven! This is also…”

— Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, english.khamenei.ir

“Cases of actual demonic possession are extremely rare, despite what the False God and his propaganda machine would have you believe.”

— Joshua Conkel, Mj Kaufman, Salli Richardson Whitfield, Jeff Woolnough, Kevin Rodney Sullivan, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Lee Toland Krieger, Ross Maxwell, Rob Seidenglanz, Oanh Ly, Michael Goi, Matthew Barry, Alex Garcia Lopez, Christina Ham, Donna Thorland, Axelle Carolyn, Craig Macneill, Christianne Hedtke, Lindsay Calhoon Bring, Maggie Kiley, Zelda, Miranda Otto, imdb.com

“Right now, there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube. This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation; this tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers; this tube is the most awesome goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless…”

— Paddy Chayefsky, Howard Beale, Peter Finch, imdb.com

“Now everybody do the propaganda. And sing along to the age of paranoia.”

— Green Day, open.spotify.com

“Visual propaganda is an extremely powerful tool.”

— Ryan Johnson, Peter Lalayanis, Nas Kamal, Archie Panjabi, imdb.com

“Propaganda both whipped up Hitler’s base and provided cover for his regime’s most brutal aggressions. It also allowed truth seeking to blur into wishful thinking, as Europeans’ yearning for a benign resolution to the global crisis trumped all rational skepticism.”

— George Prochnik, newyorker.com

“Zweig recognized that propaganda had played a crucial role in eroding the conscience of the world. He described how, as the tide of propaganda rose during the First World War, saturating newspapers, magazines, and radio, the sensibilities of readers became deadened.”

— George Prochnik, newyorker.com

“These buildings were not designed to thrill or elevate or warm with their beauty. They are designed to dwarf the individual, to intimidate, to remind constantly that the state is all powerful and supreme, that the individual is meaningless in the grand scheme of things.”

— Anthony Bourdain, Himself - Host, Anthony Bourdain, imdb.com

“Instruction in world history in the so-called high schools is even today in a very sorry condition. Few teachers understand that the study of history can never be to learn historical dates and events by heart and recite them by rote; that what matters is not whether the child knows exactly when this…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“Only the Jew knew that by an able and persistent use of propaganda heaven itself can be presented to the people as if it were hell and, vice versa, the most miserable kind of life can be presented as if it were paradise. The Jew knew this and acted accordingly. But the German, or rather his Governme…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“Politics is for puppets.”

— Kor Adana, Randolph Leon, Philip Price, Michael Cristofer, imdb.com

“The Trump campaign slogan, ‘Make America Great Again,’ was perhaps the single most offensive thing you could say to Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley says the future is going to be better than the past. That is the propaganda, if you will.”

— Peter Thiel, foxbusiness.com

“The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole of life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic initiative.”

— Joseph Goebbels, en.wikiquote.org

“To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda. In the beginning there is the understanding, this understanding uses propaganda as a tool to find those men, that shall turn understanding into politics. Success is the important thing. Prop…”

— Joseph Goebbels, en.wikiquote.org

“What do you call North Korean K-Pop? Propaganda Style.”

— Antimoney, reddit.com

“The press must grow day in and day out—it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon.”

— Joseph Stalin, marx2mao.com

“American propaganda works so well that we still have people out here thinking it was totally fine and justified that the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese civilians, killing well over 100,000 innocent people. It works so well that, even though the United States is the only country t…”

— kropotkhristian, kropotkhristian.tumblr.com

“I dig my way to into your head and start rebuilding the neural pathways that dictate your reality.”

— Eyedea, open.spotify.com

“Conspiracy theories are corrosive in society at large. When they dictate national policy, they can be lethal.”

— Dan Rather, facebook.com