These propaganda quotes will inspire you. Propaganda usually disapproving or information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, is used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging propaganda quotes, propaganda sayings, and propaganda proverbs.
Best Propaganda Quotes
- “Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated
are confident they are acting on their own free will.” ~ Joseph Goebbels - “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ~ George Orwell
- “Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.” ~ Eric Hoffer
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“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” ~ Unknown
- “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” ~ Malcolm X
- “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” ~ Adolf Hitler
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“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.” ~ Adolf Hitler
- “Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don’t believe yourself.” ~ Decimius Magnus Ausonius
- “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” ~ Saul Bellow
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“The Republican Party can lead any person to believe that their promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.” ~ Edward Bernays
- “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Propaganda is amazing, people can be led to believe anything.” ~ Alice Walker
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“Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.” ~ Charles de Gaulle
- “This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.” ~ Joseph Goebbels
- “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 Hitler
- “We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.” ~ Vladimir Lenin
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“All the war propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” ~ George Orwell
- “That’s the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody’s going to be against, and everybody’s going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn’t mean anything.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.” ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
- “For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
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“It’s so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.” ~ Harold Pinter
- “The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief” ~ Jacques Ellul
- “Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.” ~ Gil Courtemanche
- “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
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“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” ~ A. J. Liebling
- “Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?” ~ Bertrand Russell
- “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
- “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.” ~ Adolf Hitler
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“Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.” ~ Adolf Hitler
- “Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.” ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
- “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
- “To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.” ~ Adolf Hitler
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“One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.” ~ Douglas MacArthur
- “Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything – you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
- “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” ~ Charles Mackay
- “The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.” ~ Adolf Hitler
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“He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.” ~ Joseph Conrad
- “You would be surprised how effective, at least for influencing low-information voters, negative propaganda about me is.” ~ Edward Snowden
- “The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.” ~ Noam Chomsky , Political propaganda quotes
- “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” ~ George Orwell
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“All propaganda must be confined to a few bare necessities and then must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas . . . Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea upon the memory of a crowd.” ~ Adolf Hitler
- “The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.” ~ Edward Bernays
- “I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.” ~ Michael Crichton
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“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” ~ Plato
- “In Russia, we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.” ~ Yakov Smirnoff
- “The news isn’t there to tell you what happened. It’s there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.” ~ Joss Whedon
- “All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.” ~ Adolf Hitler
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“Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.” ~ Francis Cornford
- “In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.” ~ Adolf Hitler
- “Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos.” ~ Edward Bernays
- “It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance… As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered.” ~ Adolf Hitler
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“I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state…” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “The rifle itself has no moral stature since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.” ~ Jeff Cooper
- “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 McLuhan
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“To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.” ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- “Because they don’t teach the truth about the world, schools have to rely on beating students over the head with propaganda about democracy. If schools were, in reality, democratic, there would be no need to bombard students with platitudes about democracy. They would simply act and behave democratically, and we know this does not happen. The more there is a need to talk about the ideals of democracy, the less democratic the system usually is.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” ~ Winston Churchill
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“The four cornerstones of the American political psyche are 1) emotion substituted for thought, 2) fear, 3) ignorance and 4) propaganda” ~ Joe Bageant
- “The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince… the masses. But the masses are slow moving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready even to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.” ~ Adolf Hitler
- “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
