“Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.” ThinkingMadeEndsFilmMoralCenturyDirectorsDemandTreatsVictimExcellenceMediumsPropaganda20th CenturySpectatorsManipulative Author:Michael Haneke
“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.” PeopleThinkingBigsLyingFallSocietyMassVictimPropagandaDishonestyNazismMein KampfRise To Power Author:Adolf Hitler
“Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters.” IfsNeedsWarSupportEconomySceneModelsIdealsMachinesVictimFilledTerrorRevengePropagandaCrashPutinStokeTerror AttacksRussian Economy Author:Garry Kasparov
“The person who imagined that he could not be the victim of propaganda because he could distinguish truth from falsehood, is extremely susceptible to propaganda, because when propaganda does tell the truth, he is then convinced that it is no longer propaganda: moreover, his self-confidence makes him all the more vulnerable to attacks of which he is unaware.” PersonsDoeSelfVictimConvincedSelf ConfidenceVulnerablePropagandaTelling The TruthFalsehoodSusceptible Author:Jacques Ellul
“Muslims are the primary victims of ISIS. Muslims are the ones who want to do the most to defeat this ideology. It's important that we don't do their propaganda for them, by giving them the legitimacy that they crave.” WantGivingImportantVictimDefeatIdeologyPrimariesPropagandaCraveIsisLegitimacy Author:Dalia Mogahed
“Misrepresentation, false propaganda, innuendoes soon sprout into poisonous weeds, and before long the people find themselves victims of a pollution that has robbed them of their individual liberty and enslaved them to a group of political gangsters.” PeopleLongPoliticalIndividualLibertyGroupsVictimPropagandaWeedPollutionGangstersPoisonousIndividual LibertySproutsMisrepresentation Author:David O. McKay
“Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.” MayCountryCharacterWinningRiskHeroHonorEasierVictimDeedsCommitPropagandaAssaultAssassinationAssassinsCharacter Assassination Author:Alan Barth