To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.
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.
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.
There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
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.
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.