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For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

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.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.

The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.

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

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

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

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

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.

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

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

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

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

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

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

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

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.