Chaos Quote by Edward Bernays

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

— H. L. Mencken

It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

— Joseph Goebbels

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task…

— Joseph Goebbels

The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it…

— Joseph Goebbels

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to…

— Adolf Hitler

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

— John Berger

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

— Adolf Hitler

The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses are slow…

— Adolf Hitler

All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed…

— Adolf Hitler

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other…

— Jean Anouilh

Unfortunately, propaganda works.

— Andy Rooney

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