During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.

A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth

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

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

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.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.

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.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

Done because we are too many.

Man therefore is responsible for what transpires here.

Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self.

I gave myself an objective, to be the second president from Correze and finally to be the successor to Francois Mitterrand.

Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.

Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.

An actor has to embody a role.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.