Conviction 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

“In a...media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't always…

— Barack Obama

“within an established totalitarian regime the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, much less to inform, but rather to humiliate. From this point…

— Anthony Daniels

“There are two different evils about propaganda as now practised. On the one hand, its appeal is generally to irrational causes of belief rather…

— Bertrand Russell

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

— Adolf Hitler

Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

— Joseph Goebbels

[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

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

“All of this evokes the dicta of successful historic propagandists described earlier. From Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: >"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." >"Keep…

— Sharyl Attkisson

The best defense against propaganda: more propaganda.

— Edward Bernays

While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands…

— Johann Most

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

— Stefan Molyneux