Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
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.
For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.
It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.
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.