The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.

There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false…

— Jimmy Carter

Propaganda is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

— Harold Evans

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some…

— Walter Lippmann

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

— Hans Morgenthau

The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as from 1933 onward, "political criminality" was given a much broader definition than ever before and more…

— Sheila Fitzpatrick

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it…

— Thomas Szasz

Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…

— James Madison

“Slander does to a soul what cancer does to a cell.”

— Criss Jami

Propaganda begins when dialogue ends.

— Jacques Ellul

It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state.

— Noam Chomsky

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only…

— Joseph Goebbels

Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as…

— Dallas Willard

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

— John Dryden

The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;…

— Eric Hoffer