Democracy Quote by Lars T. Lih

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 has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something.…

— Elizabeth Drew

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

Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying…

— Fredrik Bajer

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

Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.

— Jacques Ellul

“It remains, as ever, an axiom of conventional wisdom that the use of propaganda as a means of social and ideological control is distinctive…

— Alex Carey

Propaganda is a topic of particular concern to peace associations. This is a matter of educating the population in general, and not least the…

— Fredrik Bajer

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 is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

— William Blum

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

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

— Noam Chomsky