Propaganda quotes

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◆ 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.

- Adolf Hitler100

◆ Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.

- Clara Zetkin99

◆ They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.

- Johann Most99

◆ Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

- Christian Lous Lange99

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

- Eric Hoffer99

◆ 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 Hitler99

◆ We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption.

- George Creel99

◆ Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

- F M Cornford99

◆ That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.

- Lindsey Buckingham99

◆ There's no denying that television is one of the most powerful propaganda media we've ever invented.

- Jim Fowler99

◆ Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

- Rita Mae Brown99

◆ 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 Chomsky99

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

- Noam Chomsky99

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

- Jacques Ellul99

◆ 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 McLuhan99