Propoganda Quotes

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
― Seneca, Natural Questions

“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
― Frank Herbert

“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
― Gore Vidal

“Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“A cursory look at history reveals that propaganda and disinformation are nothing new, and even the habit of denying entire nations and creating fake countries has a long pedigree. In 1931 the Japanese army staged mock attacks on itself to justify its invasion of China, and then created the fake country of Manchukuo to legitimise its conquests. China itself has long denied that Tibet ever existed as an independent country. British settlement in Australia was justified by the legal doctrine of terra nullius (‘nobody’s land’), which effectively erased 50,000 years of Aboriginal history.
In the early twentieth century a favourite Zionist slogan spoke of the return of ‘a people without a land [the Jews] to a land without a people [Palestine]’. The existence of the local Arab population was conveniently ignored. In 1969 Israeli prime minister Golda Meir famously said that there is no Palestinian people and never was. Such views are very common in Israel even today, despite decades of armed conflicts against something that doesn’t exist. For example, in February 2016 MP Anat Berko gave a speech in the Israeli Parliament in which she doubted the reality and history of the Palestinian people. Her proof? The letter ‘p’ does not even exist in Arabic, so how can there be a Palestinian people? (In Arabic, ‘f’ stands for ‘p’, and the Arabic name for Palestine is Falastin.)”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.”
― Mark Crispin Miller

“Trump often seems like a one-man set of Aesop-like fables—with easy-to-decipher morals like “those who lie down with dogs will get up with fleas” or “when someone tells you who he is, believe him”—but because he is president of the United States, his actions do not simply end in a tagline moral; rather, they ripple outward like a toxic tsunami, creating havoc in the lives of millions. Once he has left office, the damage he has done to American institutions and the country’s foreign policy will take years to repair. And to the degree that his election was a reflection of larger dynamics in society—from the growing partisanship in politics, to the profusion of fake stories on social media, to our isolation in filter bubbles—his departure from the scene will not restore truth to health and well-being, at least not right away.”
― Michiko Kakutani, The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

“C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has most!”
― Mrs. Ernest Ames, An ABC for Baby Patriots

“Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“When the mistakes fall disproportionately on one side, it is no respect for the notion of truth to pretend that everything is even.”
― Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth

“The journalist Anne Applebaum identified an entire group of “neo-Bolsheviks”—including Trump, Nigel Farage in Britain, Marine Le Pen in France, Jarosław Kaczyński in Poland, and the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán—who, like Lenin and Trotsky, started out on the political fringes and rode a wave of populism to prominent positions. In 2017, she wrote that “to an extraordinary degree, they have adopted Lenin’s refusal to compromise, his anti-democratic elevation of some social groups over others and his hateful attacks on his ‘illegitimate’ opponents.”
Many of the more successful neo-Bolsheviks, Applebaum points out, have created their own “alternative media” that specializes in disinformation, hatemongering, and the trolling of adversaries. Lying is both reflexive and a matter of conviction: they believe, she writes, “that ordinary morality does not apply to them….In a rotten world, truth can be sacrificed in the name of ‘the People,’ or as a means of targeting ‘Enemies of the People.’ In the struggle for power, anything is permitted.”
― Michiko Kakutani, The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

“In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt looked at the essential role that propaganda played in gaslighting the populations of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, writing that “in an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.”
“Mass propaganda,” she wrote, “discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
― Michiko Kakutani, The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump

“दुनियाँ का बड़े से बड़ा ‪#‎प्रोपोगेंडा‬ करने वाला भी एक भूखे इंसान को इस बात का यकीन नहीं दिलवा सकता की उसका पेट भरा हुआ है।
‪#‎आत्मज्ञान‬।”
― Aalok Rai

“تمتطي صهوة الإعلام رغم حبك للظهور اذا كان أهدافه تختلف عن أهدافك ،لأن صورتك سيحددها هو وستكتشف انك ليس انت !!”
― طارق البرغوثي

“choices may be the cornerstone of individual freedom but, as the history of humanity shows, the urge to surrender to something larger and to transcend the self can be just as urgent, if not more so. The greatest propagandists and advertisers have always understood this.”
― Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

“You find hate more among journalists and politicians at home than among fighting men.”
― John Buchan, Mr. Standfast

“Everything in this world,' Urban Horn observed casually, 'occurs under the banner of the fight for truth. And though it usually concerns all sorts of truths, one truth benefits from it. The real truth”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Narrenturm

“The prevailing vision of history, as an egalitarian pageant of equally valid, self-authenticating "perspectives" on the past representing the "voices" of particular groups, is dangerous to society at large. It reserves a special place for everyone, which is exciting news for political extremists, con-artists, and megalomaniacs eager to register their self-interested propaganda as legitimate contributions to a "broader perspective" of history.”
― Timothy H. Ives, Stones of Contention

“Too often ‘all of the noise’ is a ruse designed to convince us that ‘all of the noise’ is more than just ‘all of the noise.’ However, everything gets terribly sticky when the people making ‘all of the noise’ genuinely come to believe that ‘all of the noise’ that they’re making is more than just ‘all of the noise.’ For when that happens, you can’t even hear the noise because of all the noise.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To believe without question is questionable!”
― Anon

“Propaganda’s favorite delicacy is ignorance. Take that out of its diet and it will starve.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Don't be angry with the news anchors. They are बंधुआ मज़दूर, (servants), they also need to feed their children, & morality can not buy a piece of ”
― Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"