All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

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

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine— some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone— but the rotund, jowly face of Kim Il Sung still beams down contentedly from every wall, and the 58-year-old son looks as chubby as ever, even as his slenderized subjects are mustered to applaud him.

The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.

The media— stenographers to power.

Was man wünscht, das glaubt auch jeder.

La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas.

Unfortunately, propaganda works.

Every occasion had its propaganda ... You had a desire, a view, a line, and you disseminated it.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift betwen the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

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

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Public-relations specialists make flower arrangements of the facts, placing them so that the wilted and less attractive petals are hidden by sturdy blooms.

In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless; the poison is in the sugar.