Aggression Quote by Joseph Goebbels

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

— Bertrand Russell

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'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

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

— Bertrand Russell

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 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

“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

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

— William Blum

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

— Jacques Ellul

“When causes are vague and goals uncertain... it becomes necessary to fall back on the bloated and honeyed words of propaganda.”

— Peter Englund