Propaganda Quotes

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Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.

...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.

The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The truth is the best propaganda.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

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.

The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.

We have made the Reich by propaganda

To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.

In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves.

Because our ladies mostly attend Kalatshepams, (Religious discourses) they have fallen prey to the superstitions, blind beliefs, and immorality by the false and fictituous propaganda of the Brahmins.

You don't have to pose your camera. The pictures are there, and you just take them. The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda. (On the Spanish Civil War, 1937)

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Destroy the family, you destroy the country.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.

The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda

Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world.

Capitalism needs neither propaganda nor apostles. Its achievements speak for themselves. Capitalism delivers the goods.

All photography is propaganda.

As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.

Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.

It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.

Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief

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