Character Quote by Jacques Ellul

Propaganda tries first of all to create conditioned reflexes in the individual so that certain words, signs, or symbols, even certain persons or facts,…

— Jacques Ellul

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

— Walter Lippmann

When we consider propaganda as the attempt to shape the thoughts and feelings of others, in ways conforming to the aims of the communicator,…

— Randal Marlin

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

— Marianne Williamson

Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people; the [party] organization embraces within its scope only those who do not threaten on…

— Adolf Hitler

Whenever there is an organized movement to persuade people to believe or do something, whenever an effort is made to "propagate" a creed or…

— Edwin Way Teale

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief

— Jacques Ellul

All propaganda must be confined to a few bare necessities and then must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas . . . Only…

— Adolf Hitler

Having analyzed these traits, we can now advance a definition of propaganda - not an exhaustive definition, unique and exclusive of all others, but…

— Jacques Ellul

[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

The task of propaganda lies not in a scientific training of the individual, but rather in directing the masses toward certain facts, events, necessities,…

— Adolf Hitler

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

— Harold Evans