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Propaganda Quotes by Adolf Hitler
- Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
- Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the…
- Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on psychological…
- It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad masses of its…
- I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian-…
- By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.
- All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will…
- All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.
- As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right…
- In political matters feeling often decides more correctly than reason.
- It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance... As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided,…
- [Propaganda] must be aimed at the emotions and only to a very limited degree at the so-called intellect... The art of propaganda lies in understanding…
- [Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this…
- [This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has…
- The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.
- For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by…
- The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses are slow moving,…
- When there is change, it must not alter the content of what propaganda is driving at, but in the end must always say the same…
- To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the…
- As soon as one point is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion may not simply result in a new and better formulation,…
- The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.
- The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all…
- But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must…
- All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
More Propaganda Quotes
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. — Saul Bellow
- History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce
- Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. — Rita Mae Brown
- It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. — Harry Browne
- The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. — Samuel Butler
- Men willingly believe what they wish. — Julius Caesar
- All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they… — Noam Chomsky
- There is massive propaganda for everyone to consume. Consumption is good for profits and consumption is good for the political establishment. — Noam Chomsky
- Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. — Noam Chomsky
- In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. — Winston Churchill
- Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike… — Jean Anouilh