Vladimir Lenin Quotes

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

The media can be a really strong vehicle.

The press ... is but the servant of human intellect and its ministry is for good or evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill that grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

The essential thing is the formation of the public will of the nation. That is the starting point for political action.

Newspapers form public opinion, but public opinion also influences newspapers. The general masses are not like horses that can be tamed and trained to do their masters bidding.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. 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.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen, and the far spread magazine, rules the country.

You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.

The media is either our salvation or our death.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Well I think the media has a very powerful influence on almost anything and everything we do because the general public gets their perception of what is going on in things they don't have immediate access to from what they get through the media.

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

This thing that Colin Powell's son is expected to do is kind of scary when you think that television and radio and newspapers are what make people think what they think.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

States which used to communicate directly to their citizens now do so through the media, where their messages are reshaped by the logics of news values and commentary.

The newspapers, magazines and other journals of the country, it is safe to say, have shed and continue to shed, more light on the public and business affairs of, the nation than any other instrumentality of public; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of the publicity afforded by a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern.

The power of the people is tremendous. In order to use this power, efforts, determination, dedication, and endeavors are required. If the people take action, and if the politicians and the leaders get closer to the masses of millions in their countries, no power will be able to withstand them, and no threat will affect them

I run the Daily Express purely for propaganda and for no other purpose.

Ever since Gutenberg, every dynasty, every political leader, every major religion, has recognized that to control the media is to have a powerful instrument for controlling the values and behavior of a population.