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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

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Sound

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1113, e-artnow

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• 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

  Men, Thinking, Mad

  Charles Mackay (1841). “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions”, p.3

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• 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

  Lying, Intelligent, Rise To Power

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.

  George F. Kennan

  Communication, America, Age

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• Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think.

  Gil Courtemanche

  Powerful, Thinking, Deceit

  Gil Courtemanche (2007). “A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali”, p.178, Vintage

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• The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.

  Hermann Goring

  Country, Peace, Freedom

  Quoted in Gustave M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary (1947).

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• Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

  Adolf Hitler

  Truth, War, Drug

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• 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

  Persistence, Yield, Mind

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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, Mind, Bombs

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.318, Macmillan

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• 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

  Moving, Hands, Snakes

  Jean Anouilh, Lillian Hellman (1999). “The Lark”, p.11, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

  Bertrand Russell

  Hate, Successful, Hatred

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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

  Momentum, Language, Mass

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Mean, Democracies Have, Australia Day

  Noam Chomsky (1997). “World Orders, Old and New”, p.89, Pluto Press

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• 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

  Funny, Russia, Two

  "Laugh Off: The Comedy Showdown Between Real Life And The Pros". Book by Bob Fenster, 2005.

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• History is the propaganda of the victors.

  Louis de Bernieres

  History, Anarchy, Heresy

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.57, Vintage

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• 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

  Media, Should, Mass

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Political, Language, Being True

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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

  Ignorance, Political, Four

  Joe Bageant (2008). “Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War”, p.58, Broadway Books

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• In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Peace, Truth

  Discussion of Operation Overlord with Stalin at the Teheran Conference November 30, 1943; in Winston Churchill: The Second World War, Volume V : Closing the Ring (1952), Chapter 21 (Teheran: The Crux), p. 338.

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• Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

  A. J. Liebling

  Funny, Media Control, Politics

  New Yorker, 14 May 1960

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• 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

  Truth, Reality, Empathy

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

  Jacques Ellul

  Goal, Belief, Opinion

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• 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

  Fighting, Intelligent, Men

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.124, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Men, Gun, Evil

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

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, Political, Democracy

  "On Propaganda". WBAI Interview, chomsky.info. January 1992.

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