Constant Quote by Jacques Ellul

Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

— John Berger

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

— Adolf Hitler

The propagandist must utilize all of the technical means at his disposal - the press, radio, TV, movies, posters, meetings, door-to-door canvassing...There is no…

— Jacques Ellul

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

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 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 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

[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 art of propaganda lies in understanding the emotional ideas of the great masses and finding, through a psychologically correct form, the way to…

— 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

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

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