Capacity Quote by Gil Courtemanche

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

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

— 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

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

The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.

— Andrew Breitbart

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

— Bertrand Russell

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

— Alice Walker

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

Propaganda must not concern itself with what is best in man - the highest goals humanity sets for itself, its noblest and most precious…

— Jacques Ellul

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

— Harold Evans

We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.

— John Henrik Clarke

[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…

— Adolf Hitler