Martina Navratilova Quotes

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

You don't need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don't need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what one does not believe oneself.

We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

If you heard 40 times in a day that Newt Gingrich takes the wings off of butterflies, eventually you'd believe it.

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

Nazi propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels once remarked that if a lie is told often enough people will begin to see the lie as truth.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

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

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.