Propaganda Quotes

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses" "A lie told often enough becomes the truth" "The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses." "I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true" "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." "Four legs good, two legs bad." "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy" "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." "Propaganda is lousy to live with and difficult to overcome" "Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. " "The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." "Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media." "The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency" "When we consider the target audience of propaganda, we must recognize a natural self-defense mechanism: the critical faculty." "Whoever controls the media, controls the mind" "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it" "Repetition does not transform a lie into a tru"