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Propaganda Quotes

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Noam Chomsky

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

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

The essence of proaganda is the presentation of one side of the picture only.
J. A. C. Brown

All propaganda messages tend to occur in three stages: the stage of drawing attention and arousing interest, the stage of emotional stimulation, and the stage of showing how the tension thus created can be relieved (ie., by accepting the speaker's advice).
J. A. C. Brown

All State propaganda exalts comradeship, for it is the gregarious herd-sense and herd-smell which keeps people from thinking and so reconciles them to the destructiom of their private lives.
Cyril Connolly

The danger of total propaganda is not that the propaganda will be believed. The danger is that nothing will be believed... The end result of total propaganda are not fanatics, but cynics.
Peter F. Drucker

Propaganda by its very nature is an enterprise for perverting the significance of events and of insinuating false intentions... The propagandist must insist on the purity of his own intentions and, at the same time, hurl accusations at his enemy.
Jacques Ellul

Propaganda has only one object: to conquer the masses. Every means that further this aim is good; every means that hinders it is bad.
Joseph Goebbels

How a report is framed, which facts it contains and emphasizes and which it ignores, and in what context, are as important to shaping opinion as the bare facts themselves.
Mark Hertsgaard

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