(141 quotes found)
“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.”
Adolf Hitler
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph Goebbels
“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.”
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—”
George W. Bush
“Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?”
Bertrand Russell
“Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism”
Vladimir Lenin
“The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief”
Jacques Ellul
“Propaganda must not serve the truth especially not insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent”
“Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter”
Erich Fromm
