Leroy Hood Quotes

I'm a bit of a propagandist.

This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.

It takes an institution to help propagandize an idea.

Those who control the access to the minds of children will set the agenda for the future of the nation and the future of the western world.

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

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

We need to be aware of all different forms of brainwashing and radicalization.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what one does not believe oneself.

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

Propaganda is not French, it is not civilized to want other people to believe what you believe because the essence of being civilized is to possess yourself as you are, and if you possess yourself as you are, you of course cannot possess any one else, it is not your business.

That desire which is in us all to better other people's condition by having them think as we think.

… propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates only into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients. The gifted propagandist brings to a boil ideas and passions already simmering in the minds of his hearers. he echoes their innermost feelings.

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.

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.

The thoughts he put in her head. Someone should’ve arrested him for it.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

Get them while they're young and bend their minds.

Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright.

If you wish to persuade people that because Adam ate an apple, all who have never heard of this interesting occurrence will be roasted in an everlasting fire by a benevolent Deity, you must catch them young, make them stupid by means of drink or drugs, and carefully isolate them from all contact with books or companions capable of making them think.

Perhaps my children will one day pledge their loyalty to the Republican Party. Or perhaps they'll dismiss my liberalism as mild pap, and become anarchists. Either way may well be a reaction to my manipulation, my values. We are all the product of the indoctrination we received at the hands of our parents, even when we are repudiating that ideology.

I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."

Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.