Consumers Quote by Christopher Lasch

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

— Stefan Molyneux

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as…

— Glenn Greenwald

Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less conviction and…

— Jacques Ellul

Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or negative perceptions.…

— Ron Paul

Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter.

— Erich Fromm

Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something.…

— Elizabeth Drew

The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning…

— Deena Metzger

Political propaganda seeks to affect the way people perceive the world in order to affect the way they behave.

— Marianne Williamson

The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes…

— Marshall McLuhan

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

— John Lahr

Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually…

— Edward Bernays

“Identities are the key to political thought and action. IF cultural creators can frame their message so it resonates with a frame that the…

— Wendy Griswold