Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.
The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way.
Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.
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.