Propagandist Quotes

• The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thinking, Compassion, Tyrants

  1937 The Olive Tree.

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• Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hype, People, Doe

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Truth, Yield, Media Control

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• The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young.

  H. G. Wells

  Educational, Teaching, Men

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• The propagandist must utilize all of the technical means at his disposal - the press, radio, TV, movies, posters, meetings, door-to-door canvassing...There is no propaganda as long as one makes use, in a sporadic fashion and at random, of a newspaper article here, a poster or radio program there.

  Jacques Ellul

  Fashion, Mean, Doors

  "Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes" by Jacques Ellul, translated by Konrad Kellen & Jean Lerner, Vintage Books, New York, (p. 9), 1973.

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• The art of any propagandist and agitator consists in his ability to find the best means of influencing any given audience, by presenting a definite truth, in such a way as to make it most convincing, most easy to digest, most graphic, and most strongly impressive.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Art, Mean, Way

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• Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

  Edward Bernays

  Government, Arms, Manipulation

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Interesting, Should, Mass

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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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• Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd instantly become racists themselves.

  Jim Goad

  Racist, Shut Up, Propaganda

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

  Aldous Huxley

  Freedom, Brave New World, Views

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

  Freya Stark

  Integrity, Truthful, Conscious

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

  Max Beerbohm

  Teacher, Personality, Generations

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1954). “Around Theatres”

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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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• The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education as a teacher and education as a propagandist.

  Edward Bernays

  Education, Teacher, Jobs

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Views, Silence

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the decades, and it's a useful tool for eliminating articulate dissent and other points of view, and information that might be inconvenient for a policy agenda.

  Chris Sanders

  Views, Use, Agendas

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• We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, brethren! Be careful, teachers!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Teacher, Character, College

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fear, Real, Vanity

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always preach separation.

  Patrick Califia

  Hate, People, Prejudice

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• I'm just a propagandist and a propagandist doesn't have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks about it most convincingly.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Talking, Knows

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Time and Again”, p.98, Open Road Media

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• Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

  James Russell Lowell

  Evil, Inward, Driven

  James Russell Lowell, Maria F. Rosetti (1872). “Review of The Shadow of Dante”, p.201

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• If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect, because it doesn't seem that far-fetched compared to some of the other stuff that folks are hearing from domestic propagandists.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Fake, News

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living in an unprecedented way. Neither economic thinking nor historical experience suggests that any other social system could be as beneficial to the masses as capitalism. The results speak for themselves. The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: Si monumentum requires, circumspice.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Thinking, People, Historical

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• I don't want to be a propagandist, no matter how good the cause. I want to tell stories. It's just that the stories have to square with my consciousness as a woman and my conscience as a human being.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Squares, Stories, Want

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