Adolf Hitler Quotes

It is very depressing to see that in the 21st century people are still using the same 1950s and '60s style of propaganda.

The best propaganda omits rather than invents

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

Bear in mind that we [ with Edward Herman] did not devise the terms "manufacture of consent" and "engineering of consent." We borrowed them from leading figures in the media, public relations industry, and academic scholarship.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

The planned use of information targeted at specific audiences using any media available to achieve desired outcomes that primarily benefit the source

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

The primary purpose of the media is to mobilize support for the controlling interests.

Propaganda tries to surround man by all possible routes in the realm of feelings as well as ideas, by playing on his will or on his needs, through his conscious and his unconscious, assailing him in both his private and his public life. It furnishes him with a complete system for explaining the world, and provides immediate incentives to action.

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.

What a joy it is to see really professional media manipulation.

The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.... To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies all this is indispensably necessary.

There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.

When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.

We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.

Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.

As we [with Edward Herman] discuss there [in Manufacturing Consent] and elsewhere, recognition of the importance of "manufacturing consent" has become an ever more central theme in the more free societies.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.