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  • The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

    Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press
  • The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.

    Heart   Media   Deceit  
  • If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

  • The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

    Lying   Evil   Simplicity  
  • Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...

    "On Propaganda". WBAI Interview, chomsky.info. January 1992.
  • Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

    Mean   Two   Mind  
    Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 2, ch. 9 (1949)
  • The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.

    War   Mean   Media  
    WBAI Radio Interview, January 1992.
  • The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.

    Smart   Thinking   Views  
    Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press
  • People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

    The New Yorker, en.wikiquote.org. April 7, 1956.
  • The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

  • The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed.

    "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, www.theguardian.com. 1925.
  • All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

  • 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.

    Country   Peace   Freedom  
    Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).
  • Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

    Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”
  • For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination.

    Noam Chomsky, Carlos Peregrín Otero (2003). “Chomsky on Democracy and Education”, p.212, Psychology Press
  • That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.

    Mean   Want   Propaganda  
    Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.26, Seven Stories Press
  • The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

    Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”
  • 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.

    Interview in Göring's jail cell, April 18, 1946. "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1947.
  • The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one.

  • 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. . .

    Country   War   Simple  
  • 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 (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.

    "The Chomsky Reader". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1987.
  • The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.

    War   Agency   Government  
  • The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

    "The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization and Spirituality". Book by Dr. Jawara D. King, p.199, 2010.
  • 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.

  • It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

    Media   Technique   Use  
    "Jan. 6, 1912: Birth of the Supreme Tech Skeptic", www.wired.com. January 5, 2009.
  • In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

    Time   Peace   Truth  
    Discussion of Operation Overlord with Stalin at the Teheran Conference November 30, 1943; in Winston Churchill: The Second World War, Volume V : Closing the Ring (1952), Chapter 21 (Teheran: The Crux), p. 338.
  • Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

    New Yorker, 14 May 1960
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