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

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.

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.

Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

I find that being considerate of others and keeping what I say and what I do in agreement makes for a great night's sleep.

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.

No man can claim to usurp more than a few cubic feet of the audibilities of a public room. . . .

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

I was told that [Japan journalists] wanted to see my dog, Yume. You can see that she is in great shape.

I thank You Lord for creating the world beautiful and various and if this is Your seduction I am seduced for good and past all forgiveness