Propaganda Quotes

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.

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.

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

A state of no less than 36,000,000 inhabitants... took up arms against us... Their confidence ... knew no bounds.

All propaganda must be so popular... that even the most stupid...will understand it.

The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.

Every change that is made in the subject of a propagandist message must always emphasize the same conclusion.

The function of propaganda does not lie in the scientific training of the individual, but in calling the attention of the masses.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.