Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; credible we must be truthful.
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.
The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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.