Effects Quote by Pierre Bourdieu

Ideological purity does not now, nor has it ever, produced results.

— Bob Beckel

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

Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.

— Joseph Joubert

The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

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

— Peter Englund

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.

— Mark McKinnon

It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to…

— Joseph Goebbels

“One of the most dangerous signs of decline is the sudden reluctance to tolerate different points of view in political debate.  Questions and issues…

— Christopher Nuttall

It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.

— Terry Eagleton

Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

— Henry Giroux

False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction.

— Vladimir Lenin