Joseph Goebbels Quotes

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

Everything about the left is perception, manipulation, and lies. Everything. Everything is 'Wag the Dog.' Everything is a structured deception.

Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy

The administration shaded the truth … I was part of the propaganda campaign.

There is no lie too improbable, no distortion too great, no smear campaign too dirty for the State Department and the media to embrace.

There's so much in the media that's not the truth.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media.

The primitive simplicity of their [the masses'] minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell big ones.

Of all newspaper presses, I never heard anyone deny that the American is the worst.... [N]othing is easier than to make the people know only one side of a question; few things are easier than to keep them altogether from the knowledge of any particular affair; and, worse than all, on them [the American people] may easily be practiced the discovery that lies may work their intended effect, before the truth can overtake them. It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true or the suppression of things that are.

Selective truth

That product of the human intelligence which we denominate the Campaign Lie, though it did not originate in the United States, has here attained a development unknown in other lands. It is the destiny of America to try all experiments and exhaust all follies. In the short space of seventy-seven years, we have exhausted the efficiency of falsehood uttered to keep a man out of office.

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

I believe most media is filtered and fake.

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

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

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

I remain terrified of the capacity of the media, the capacity of spin doctors, here and abroad, particularly the United States media, to perpetuate false lies, perpetuate lies.

It's not a 24-hour news cycle, it's a 60-second news cycle now, it's instantaneous. It has never been easier to get away with telling lies. It has never been easier to get away with the glib one liner.

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.

If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

The right can distort anything it wants.

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to.