Henry Rollins Quotes

I think it's a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Allegations become facts, and facts become truth in the eyes of the public, whether they are true or not.

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Demagoguery sells. And therefore radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you can't do something else and also make it sell. You know, when I look at an Ann Coulter or I look at a Rush or I look at a Sean Hannity, I think to myself, 'What kind of self-image do you have?'

Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.

It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.

If I lived my life according to what Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh said about me, I would just stay in bed all day.

The public are not stupid.

Critics intend on changing the balance of public opinion and of political power.

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

In the age of Trump, we need to be aware of emotional rhetoric and its power regardless of whether or not it's based in fact.

It is, after all, impossible in the modern world to shield everyone from nonsense and stupidity.

Sixty-nine percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was personally responsible for 9/11 when we invaded Iraq. That is the biggest failure of the media I have ever seen.

I think, increasingly, despite what we are being told is an ever more open world of communication, there is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

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

There's so many lies being told throughout the media and people just run with the lies. They're numb to it. Too many followers, not enough leaders.

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

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

I think the media spends a lot of time fooling itself.

News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

Palin, Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others have made an art form of convincing far too many Americans to suspend their disbelief, and they have severely damaged the ability of our country to have serious discussions about serious challenges.

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

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.