#propaganda

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery. ↗

— Douglas Coop

#charisma #civil-disobedience #loaded-language #power #propaganda

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. ↗

— George Orwell

#propaganda #rewriting-history #understanding

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#hype #ignorance #indoctrination #influence #power

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#propaganda

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. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#hands #hold #like #long #move

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#elite #itself #masses #mob #momentum

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. ↗

— William Blum

#dictatorship #propaganda #violence

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies. ↗

— Mark Boal

#antiwar #every #exception #i #movie

We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types. ↗

— Garry Kasparov

#old #propaganda #shameful #stop #these

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#arouse #belief #goal #longer #modern