Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. – Jean Anouilh
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. – Hannah Arendt
Derived from this celebrated society for propagating the faith, the name propaganda is applied in modern political language as a term of reproach to secret associations for the spread of opinions and principles which are viewed by most governments with horror and aversion. – W.T. Brande
The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda. – Martin Buber
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. – Noam Chomsky
Some of mankinds most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases. – James B. Conant
Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies. – Francis Macdonald Cornford
Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. Its a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others. – Elizabeth Drew
Double-thought: as you believe things that should be self-contradictory. This is generally the result of some kind of propaganda. – James Dye
We have made the Reich by propaganda. – Paul Joseph Goebbels
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. – Eric Hoffer
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true. – Hubert Humphrey
Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking. – William Mather Lewis
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times. – Marshall McLuhan
Propaganda replaces moral philosophy. – Hans J. Morgenthau
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? – Bertrand Russell
A propagandist is a specialist in selling attitudes and opinions. – Hans Speier
