Browsing Topic Best War Propaganda Quotes

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

If you tell a lie, tell a big one.

It’s quite interesting that in American discourse, it is almost obligatory to refer to the invasion as the ‘unprovoked invasion of Ukraine’. Look it up on Google, you will find hundreds of thousands of hits. Of course, it was provoked. Otherwise, they wouldn’t refer to it all the time as an unprovoked invasion.

It’s possible that American citizens are the least informed people in the world.

It’s not a case where they got it wrong in good faith. It’s a case where they deliberately lied to the public to justify this endless war because so many people were profiting from it.

They were talking about the massive corruption of Ukraine, and how horrible it was over there. And now, all of a sudden, they’re looking at it like they’re heroes.

It’s important to be aware of how advanced Western propaganda has become because propaganda only works if you’re not aware it’s happening.

The lion’s share of propaganda goes not toward convincing us to accept new agendas of the powerful, but toward keeping us entranced in the status quo dream world which enables the powerful to have power in the first place.

Every useful or pleasing claim about the [Ukraine] war, no matter how unverified or subsequently debunked, rapidly spreads, including by US news outlets, while dissenters are vilified as traitors or Kremlin agents. No matter your views, having falsehoods ratified is dangerous and harmful.

If you’ve got a gut feeling that your rulers are working to control your perception of the war in Ukraine, it is safe to trust that feeling.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

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.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Why, of course, the people don’t want war.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders…tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

Of course people don’t want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a ‘case’, obscuring the opponent’s point of view and avoiding awkward questions.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Naturally, the common people don’t want war … but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Naturally the common people don’t want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along. . .

During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.

The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

Rupert Murdoch’s vast newspaper empire has waged a relentless pro-war propaganda war before and since the war began.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.