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• 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

  Intellectual, Mein Kampf, Levels

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

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• 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

  Media, Intellectual, Mein Kampf

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

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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

  Friendship, Art, Lying

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• 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

  School, Reality, Democracy

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Chomsky on Mis-Education”, p.16, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• 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

  Mistake, Sacrifice, Media

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• Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

  Hans Morgenthau

  Philosophy, Tyrants, Moral

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Media, People

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• If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.

  Edward Bernays

  Control Someone, Knowing, People

  "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays (p.71), 1928.

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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

  Peace, Mind, Weakness

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• The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Truth, Dangerous, Truth Is

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 7, 1799.

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• 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

  Technology, Impact, Messages

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• 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

  Moving, Media, Ideas

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

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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

  Change, Religious, Men

  Letter to Benjamin Rush, 23 Sept. 1800

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• 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

  Winning, Essence, Ideas

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• In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.

  Adolf Hitler

  Media, Political, Feelings

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

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• It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, Peace, Fear

  Douglas MacArthur's speech to the Michigan Legislature in Lansing (May 15, 1952) as quoted in "General MacArthur Speeches and Reports 1908-1964" edited by Edward T. Imparato (p. 206), June 14, 2000.

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• The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments.

  Michael Parenti

  Peace, War, Thinking

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• Destroy the family, you destroy the country.

  Unknown

  Country, Conspiracy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

  George W. Bush

  Tyrants, Dumb, Deceit

  George W. Bush's speech at the Social Security Conversation in Greece, New York, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. May 24, 2005.

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• We have made the Reich by propaganda

  Joseph Goebbels

  Tyrants, Deceit, Made

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• (Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great routes that this sub-propaganda takes are the conditioned reflex and the myth

  Jacques Ellul

  Character, Two, Manipulation

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• A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Victory, President, Groups

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• All art is propaganda.

  George Orwell

  Art, Art Is

  George Orwell (1998). “A patriot after all, 1940-1941”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.

  Edward Bernays

  Order, Waiting, Demand

  Edward Bernays (2017). “Propaganda”, p.47, Lulu.com

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• The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.

  Edward Bernays

  Country, Intelligent, Nwo

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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