Peter Drucker Quotes

When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.

The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the lie, the greater chance that it will be believed. All epoch-making events have been produced not by the written, but the spoken word.

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.

The advertising industry is one of our most basic forms of communication and, allegedly, of information. Yet, obviously, much of this ostensible information is not purveyed to inform but to manipulate and to achieve a result - to make somebody think he needs something that very possibly he doesn't need, or to make him think one version of something is better than another version when the ground for such a belief really doesn't exist.

Propaganda invariably serves the long-term interests of some elite.

Rhetoric, which is the use of language to inform or persuade, is very important in shaping public opinion. We are very easily fooled by language and how it is used by others.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

I'm a bit of a propagandist.

I think the power of persuasion would be the greatest superpower of all time.

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

Message matters. Message matters almost as much as actions.

The Internet has made it much more effective and cheaper to spread propaganda.

Manipulation is persuading people to make up their minds while withholding some of the facts from them.

Power comes through public persuasion.

Those who tell us to be in touch with our own desires are often merely trying to make us believe that what we want is the thing that they are selling. […] We're used to that kind of persuasion, for political candidates as well as commercial products.

Radio, in a way, is preaching.

The media is so powerful.

You can't make the people do what you want them to do. You've got to get everybody to see what you seein' or you gonna be a damn fool.

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Once I can talk to people, I switch them over on my side.

Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording . . . Today the art of mind control is in the process of becoming a science.