Werner Herzog Quotes

Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.

Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

We are recruiting for a ‘British Fascistic’ to act as an organized force to combat Red Revolution.

Fascism in America will attempt to advance under the banner of Americanism and anti-Fascism.

The only books on revolution were published by communists.

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

It is no longer possible to satirize this state of affairs. Every satire risks becoming a bible for yet another national liberation front. Every satirist risks becoming the founder of a new religion, a Buddha, Zarathustra, Jesus, Muhammad or Marx. Every exposure of the ravages of the dominant system, every critique of the system's functioning, becomes fodder for the horses of liberators, welding materials for builders of armies

Communism has established centers of infection.

I admit that there was a mistake. But I had my ideology. I wanted to free my country.

There are many who do not know they are Fascists, but will find it out when the time comes.

I am not worried about this country ever going Communist. We have too much sense for that

Hitler and his clique conquered Germany by brutal violence, by murder and crime. But the doctrines of Nazism had got hold of the German mind long before then. Persuasion, not violence, had converted the immense majority of the nation to the tenets of militant nationalism. If Hitler had not succeeded in winning the race for dictatorship, somebody else would have won it.

Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties

I think the Reagan people are superb marketers. Their whole approach to polling, to television, to the symbolism and the rest approaches genius.

The Anarchists set off World War I with a gunshot in Sarajevo - but they faded away. It wasn't that the police drove them out of business. The ideology had nowhere to go except into permanent negativity.

Trump's words do have power. Power to inspire and influence. Also power to intimidate and incite fear.

In North Korea, we learnt all Americans are the enemy; they are not human.

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the “Nation,” it’s time for all of us to sit up and worry.

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.

I think the people that Barack Obama has been associating with are anti-American, by and large.

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?".