Propaganda: Insightful Quotes and Their Interpretations
Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. – Edward Bernays
The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole of life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic initiative. – Joseph Goebbels
That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success. – Joseph Goebbels
All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it. – Adolf Hitler
We do not believe in propaganda, but in the propaganda of the deed. – August Spies
All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself. – Adolf Hitler
We can hate the Nazis without ceasing to realize that they did not invent the techniques of propaganda. – George Orwell
Even in the age of Aero planes, it is the man on horseback who captures our imaginations. Such is the power of propaganda. – Vladimir Lenin
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. – Eric Hoffer
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. – George Orwell
Propaganda: Insightful Quotes and Their Interpretations part 2
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. – Noam Chomsky
The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it. – Joseph Goebbels
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
Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don’t believe yourself. – Abba Eban
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. – George Orwell
Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think. – Gil Courtemanche
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H.L. Mencken
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. – Eric Hoffer
Propaganda is when a society’s advanced technologies are used to manipulate and control its less sophisticated members. – Richard K. Morgan
In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system… The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfilment. – Joseph Goebbels
Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. – Edward Bernays
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. – Eric Hoffer
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
We have made the Reich by propaganda. – Joseph Goebbels
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. – Noam Chomsky
The most effective way to control people is to use propaganda.- Fidel Castro
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will. – Joseph Goebbels
The print medium is a subject, the internet an object of propaganda. – Julian Assange
Cinema is one of the principal means of mass propaganda. – Leon Trotsky
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
Propaganda feeds on the desire of man to be lord over himself. – Aldous Huxley
Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think. – Gil Courtemanche
Propaganda is not a science in the laboratory sense, but it is no longer entirely the empirical affair that it was before
– Harold Lasswell
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. – Joseph Goebbels
Dictators use propaganda to manufacture popularity. – Neal Gabler
The truth is the best propaganda. – Edward Abbey
The real threat is the normalized agenda of the propagandist. – Rand Paul
Propaganda begins where critical thinking ends. – Michael Bassey Johnson
The role of the propaganda masterpiece is to trick the masses into missing the revolution. – John Berger
The task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses toward certain facts, events, necessities, etc., the purpose being to move their importance into the masses’ field of vision. – Adolf Hitler
