Skip to main content

Propaganda - "Beware of Peace"


Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?Bertrand Russell


All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.  Adolf Hitle

 
This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated. Paul Watzlawick 


Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. Noam Chomsky 


Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.  Adolf Hitler
  

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


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

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffer 
 All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.  George Orwell



The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way.
Crispin Glover 

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Douglas MacArthur


 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. Douglas MacArthur
Labels:

Comments

Man Over Board said…
Sibel, Have a little something for you over at my blog. :-) Hope your having a great day, Glenn
October 5, 2009 at 3:57 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How Old is Grandpa? Can you Guess?

The age might just take you by surprise.  It did me.  Stay with this -- the answer is at the end.  It will blow you away. One evening a grandson was talking to his grandfather about current events. The grandson asked his grandfather what he thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general.. The Grandfather replied, "Well, let me think a minute, I was born before : *   television, penicillin, polio, shots, frozen, foods, Xerox, contact, lenses, Frisbees and      the pill There were no: *   credit cards, laser beams or  ball-point pens Man had not invented: *  pantyhose *  air conditioners *  dishwashers *  clothes dryers the clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh air and  man hadn't yet walked on the moon Your Grandmother and I got married first, .. ... ... and then lived toge...
46 comments
Read more

Halloween Fun Facts and Cartoons.

What do you really know about HALLOWEEN?   Well... beside the fact that we get to dress up, call out our inner child, hidden fantasy, get to eat all the candies we want. (Adios diet and Hello tooth fairy ....) and we also have another reason to paaartyyy!  Not much. I did some homework and this blog shares my discovery.  Read on and you will be surprise. I also invite you to email me pictures of your or any family member's favorite costume from past Halloweens. I will post them on a slide show on my blog, you never know it might help someone who are still undecided... go...go! to your computer... there is little time left.  ...I will tweet the participant's link to its blog every hours until Halloween to thank you for your participation.   Thanks. Halloween History: - Halloween, referred to as All Hallows Eve, was originally a pagan holiday in which they honored the dead. It was celebrated on October 31 since this was the last day of the Celtic...
17 comments
Read more

"Ignorance" - There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.- Goethe

Abraham Lincoln: It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. Albert Einstein: Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. Amos Bronson Alcott: To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. Blaise Pascal: You always admire what you really don't understand. Daniel J Boorstin: The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. Dorothy Thompson: One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in. George Eliot: Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. Henry B. Adams: Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry David Thoreau: A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, an...
8 comments
Read more