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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.
Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.
Disillusionment is not truth.
Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the voters.
Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.
when a person tells a lie, he simultaneously has to know the truth, concoct the lie, and rapidly analyze the consistency of this lie with previously known facts.
Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.
Illiteracy is a fertile ground for manipulation
The worst kind of poison for despots: truth.
We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false.
Information is like water. It finds its way to all the wrong places.
[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way ...
A lie is any communication with intent to deceive,
Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world, if diluted in a quarto volume.
[There's] a number of questionable characters whose goal is clearly not to disseminate information, but to prolong their pathetic reign by controlling people through a highly-organized and continued engineering of ignorance.
Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes.
Facts - behind them lies the whole fabric of deductive truth.
Democracies die behind closed doors ... When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.
In statecraft, as in medicine, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use. The power of propaganda should never be discounted,
Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.
When we expose the lie, the enemy's power is broken. Often
Veiling truth in mystery.
What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of "being informed" by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this word almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB.
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
First get the facts, you can distort them later
All news is lies and all propaganda is disguised as news.
Official truths are often powerful illusions.
Mix carefully truth and deceit, you have politics
This cognitive dissidence causes people to create conspiracy theories, like the ones above, to change facts to match their beliefs, rather than changing their beliefs to match facts.
Lies are weapons of mass destruction.
Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological grounds to become a brake on the further dissemination of ideas.
Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, however, if they happen to touch upon an issue of authentic concern, is no longer subject to their control and may easily produce consequences they never foresaw or intended.
Disinformation is a large part of its[CIA] covert action responsibility, and the American people are the primary target of its lies.
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible.
Disillusion is the last illusion.
Denial itself was institutionalized as a government function. Since 1923, the Turkish government has spent tens of millions of dollars in a concerted disinformation campaign to delude the world at large and, perhaps more important, its own people.
Disinformation about the state of climate change science is extraordinarily if not criminally irresponsible ...
One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.
Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough 'facts' and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth.
Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from the major human goal of understanding how the world works. It is for this reason that playing fast and loose with the truth is a very serious matter.
There's a fine line between information and propaganda.
To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.
Miseducation = Misdirection
There is a sort of gloss upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to, nor becomes the sober aspect of truth.
Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.
Rumors get started with a kernel of truth
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
There are many ways in which journalists can mislead a reader with science: they can cherry-pick the evidence, or massage the statistics; they can pit hysteria and emotion against cold, bland statements from authority figures.
Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.
The uninformed are in danger of being misinformed.
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.
That the full facts have never been revealed to the general
One of the first effects of this hyper-democratization of data was to unmoor information from the context required to understand it. On the Internet, facts float about freely and are recombined more according to the preferences of intuition than the rules of cognition:
There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false propaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.
The lies are in different places.
Immaculate Deception.
Lies spread faster than you can catch them.
A corruption of intentions.
When causes are vague and goals uncertain... it becomes necessary to fall back on the bloated and honeyed words of propaganda.
Truth has a habit f emerging just when it can do the most damage.
The greatest enemy of truth is often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth - persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
The fact is that gossip, rumors, mythmaking, and news stories are not appropriate vehicles for the communication of nuances of truth, those subtle tonalities that are often the truly crucial elements in a causal chain.
The media - stenographers to power.
In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating.
Find the truth and spread the lie.
The enemy lies to make the problems we face appear larger than the solutions we carry.
The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.
the constant repetition of falsehood is more convincing than the demonstration of truth.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Hoax needed to complete the premises of truth.
It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much more efficiently now because they're accepted so fast.
Changing the story until you believe it.
From what you didn't say, lies that you did say.
In political affairs illusions are usually the product of a failure to appreciate change; but such failure-usually a necessary and perhaps salutary part of human affairs-becomes, when the change is very fast, not a stabilizing conservatism but a form of deception resembling lunacy.
Lies breed distrust, and distrust brings conflict.
A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.
Propaganda - a war of words. Diplomacy - words of peace.
Lies emerges when control is unreachable
A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past.
People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another.
Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information in order to create an impression different from that originally intended.
What else exhausts like sustained deception?
Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.
Real obscurantism is not to hinder the spread of what is true, clear, and useful, but to bring into vogue what is false.
A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.
When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.
Misunderstanding - A "Missed Understanding" because of the human preference to Assumption over Clarification.
The enemy uses lies to make problems appear bigger than the solutions we carry.
Twitter is an astounding platform for information, but it's a total blank slate - which means it's an astounding platform for disinformation, too.
People would believe propagate, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial.
The truth is the best propaganda.