Learning Quote by Masha Gessen

“It is clear enough why both major propaganda systems insist upon this fantasy. Since its origins, the Soviet State has attempted to harness the…

— Noam Chomsky

You have to be down here in the States to realize just how tightly controlled the corporate media is and how much they practise…

— Jello Biafra

We are struggling with the global war on the truth. And if what we used to think of as the domain of the Soviets,…

— Craig Mazin

That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious control of…

— John Dewey

We don't live in a culture of censorship, such as the Soviet Union's; we live in a culture where there is too much information,…

— Anne Applebaum

“Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct a propaganda there must be…

— Walter Lippmann

“When reason, common sense, and decency are assaulted often enough, then personality is crippled, and human intelligence disintegrates or is warped. The barrier between…

— Frank Ellis

“within an established totalitarian regime the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, much less to inform, but rather to humiliate. From this point…

— Anthony Daniels

As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great…

— Alexander Haig

No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a…

— Alan Bullock

There's a huge generational gap between the Soviet-school journalists and the new journalists. We were not brought up working on propaganda; we were brought…

— Margarita Simonyan

“This is the paradox of public space: even if everyone knows an unpleasant fact, saying it in public changes everything. One of the first…

— Slavoj Žižek