Quotes About Government Propaganda

#1. I think there's something unfortunate about the attention that performers get in our media, but the weight of government propaganda is so heavy that anyone with a different point of view who has access to the media has a responsibility to use it.

David Clennon

#2. Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.

Mark Poster

#3. U.S. Government propaganda tries to give the impression that aerial bombardment achieves near-surgical accuracy, so that military targets can be destroyed with minimal effect on civilians. Technical documents give a different picture.

Noam Chomsky

#4. At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.

Anthony Marra

#5. One of the hopeful things that I've discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. The media could've stopped it if they had searched deep enough; if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda they could've stopped it.

Julian Assange

#6. It is a fact that the USA corporate government routinely lies to its mass population.

Steven Magee

#7. Europe resolved a great problem-the problem of the Zionist danger. The Zionists, who constituted a strong political party in Europe, caused much disorder there. Since they had a lot of property and controlled an empire of propaganda, they made the European governments helpless.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#8. The more we die, the stronger we will become

Azar Nafisi

#9. America is a nation of illusions; illusions in the media, schools and government - an iron curtain of propaganda.

Bryant McGill

#10. Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.

Aniruddha Sastikar

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

Stefan Molyneux

#12. The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)

Angelo Codevilla

#13. No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

Noam Chomsky

#14. The basis of the First Amendment is the hypothesis that speech can rebut speech, propaganda will answer propaganda, free debate of ideas will result in the wisest governmental policies.

Fred M. Vinson

#15. We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [ ... ]. All of this was part of a well-financed propaganda campaign on the part of British agents. As usual, the government of the United States was being "run" by the British Secret Intelligence Service.

Eustace Mullins

#16. Our Western press soldiers from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, etc. (often 1 correspondent for every 200 million Chinese), happily manufacture stories, demonize the Chinese government, and fabricate heroes, saviors, and incidents for China, at will.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#17. Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust?
Very nearly everyone, come to think of it ...

Terry Pratchett

#18. Another touchy point: the inability of successive Israeli governments to deal with the propaganda war. Israel has a brilliant instrument in the IDF. We have a cyber-war unit which may become the best unit in the world to fight cyber problems. On the propaganda war ... it is a large failure.

Manfred Gerstenfeld

#19. We are in the energy dictatorship that calls itself the United States of America.

Steven Magee

#20. If exercising the right to vote were truly effective, the government would not be so eager to promote it.

Andrew P. Napolitano

#21. You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go off with a brochure in hand and you'd turn up and it wouldn't be like that at all.

Emma Donoghue

#22. Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect."
"Yes, it is. But it is politically correct."
(The Rise of Political Correctness)

Angelo Codevilla

#23. I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

Aleksandar Hemon

#24. Art should be for sale. The artist should not.

A.E. Samaan

#25. Terrorist', noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

Glenn Greenwald

#26. News is how the government delivers propaganda to the masses and it is an essential requirement of the television broadcasting job to be emotionless to this.

Steven Magee

#27. With Will Shakespeare writing your government's propaganda, you can't go wrong, can you?

Peter Hambleton

#28. The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

Gustave Le Bon

#29. Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

Edward L. Bernays

#30. Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers.

Leon Jouhaux

#31. The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs.

Steven Magee

#32. I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful - but also very harmful to our society.

George Soros

#33. The USA government sure do like their propaganda feeds! Unfortunately, too much propaganda does create the scenario where no one believes anything that they say. It's just like Pinocchio.

Steven Magee

#34. The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

Phyllis Schlafly

#35. Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.

Henry Rollins

#36. They [NPR] are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any other point of view. They don't even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive.

Roger Ailes