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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.
In time of war, truth is always replaced by 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.
That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.
The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
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.