(Propaganda) proceeds by psychological manipulations, character modifications, by creation of stereotypes useful when the time comes - The two great read more

(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

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.

We have made the Reich by propaganda.

We have made the Reich by propaganda.

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the read more

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."—

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

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

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other read more

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.

We have made the Reich by propaganda

We have made the Reich by propaganda

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie read more

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

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

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