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Propaganda Quotes by Edward Bernays
- The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they…
- A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product;…
- I believe that competition in the future will not be only an advertising competition between individual products or between big associations, but that it will…
- In the ethical sense, propaganda bears the same relation to education as to business or politics. It may be abused. It may be used to…
- Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents…
- Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help…
- Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.
- The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.
- The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and opinions. The…
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