Ernst Toller Quotes

If you can make people believe lies are the facts, then you can control them.

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

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.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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.

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.

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

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

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.

No section of the American populace has been more completely deceived by the forces interested in keeping the truth from the people than America's youth.

Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catchwords, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

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

Propaganda is bad when it comes from the enemy. It is good when it comes from us.

We are in the middle of a big swamp of ignorance that is taught by a lot of nonsense, propaganda, absurdity, amalgams. I have a hard time listening to any speech. You feel like you want to stop the TV every two seconds to rephrase them, because it's lie after lie, turning stuff upside down, and you can't follow that. That's the trap.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

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

If you keep saying two plus two equals five over and over again, then that is what people are going to think. Maybe it does equal five if we keep changing the definition of what's normal and what's right and what's wrong.

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.