Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.

It’s okay to be honest about not knowing rather than spreading falsehood. While it is often said that honesty is the best policy, silence is the second best policy.

One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to...

Perhaps the media may not always be telling what to think, but it is always telling you what to think about.

Was man wünscht, das glaubt auch jeder.

If I painted a dog statue to look like a cat, the people would pet it. But why paint that when I could paint politicians as honest, for-the-people people?

Manipulating the media is akin to poisoning a nation’s water supply – it affects all of our lives in unimaginable ways.

Demonise one of them and the sympathisers will melt away.

Una verdad sin interés puede ser eclipsada por una falsedad emocionante.

God wants us to humbly and sincerely ask him things. How often do you enjoy people talking about you without taking the time to get to know you?

It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.

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...

I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about...

Propagandists reveal themselves through their use of tricks such as “name-calling”, employing “glittering generalities”, “plain folks” identifications, “card stacking”, “bandwagon” devices, and so on. Such devices could be identified easily in many religious and political...

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

Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty,...

PROPAGANDA (PROP-A-GANDER)An evil grin behind a smiling clown’s maskKamil Ali

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them.

Heute ist der Terrorist an die Stelle des Mörders von einst getreten.

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism

Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so? I wrote at the time (The Nation, October 5, 1998) that Osama bin...

New concepts should be introduced by the power of imagery.

The assumptions that propagandists are rational, in the sense that they follow their own propaganda theories in their choice of communications, and that the meanings of propagandists’ communications may differ for different people reoriented the...

Jede Propaganda ist so gefährlich wie die Dummheit, auf die sie trifft.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Terrorist’, noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.

There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be...

I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will...

America is a nation of illusions; illusions in the media, schools and government — an iron curtain of propaganda.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn’t take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

Why of course the people don’t want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to...

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

So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become worried by the frenzy and paranoia of the Nixonian Vietnam policy that consensus...

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

Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.

What’s to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder’s been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there’s no longer much meaning in asking whose ax is bloodier....

our” side.

The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.

As sure as the tide comes in, communities will integrate. It is only propaganda that will stop it.

Guantánamo Bay’s motto: ‘Safe, humane, legal, transparent detention.’ Four adjectives describing one sick joke.

Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don’t even know it.

I was right outside the NSA [on 9/11], so I remember the tension on that day. I remember hearing on the radio, ‘the plane’s hitting,’ and I remember thinking my grandfather, who worked for the...

Conspiracy theorists like to claim NASA’s moon landing was faked. Well of course it was! But the biggest conspiracy of all is the Columbus landed in the new world in the late 15th century. There...

Among the many symbols used to frighten and manipulate the populace of the democratic states, few have been more important than “terror” and “terrorism.” These terms have generally been confined to the use of violence...

I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and blog stuff, from the isolationist Right as well as from the peaceniks, who...

There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

{President] Kayibanda’s government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the media it controlled to launch a propaganda campaign against us. In a country where more than half...