Harold Evans Quotes

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

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

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.

Propaganda is that branch of lying which often deceives your friends without ever deceiving your enemies.

If you tell people something often enough, they will believe it.

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

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

If you want to convince somebody, make up a quote and attribute it to some renowned authority …. People are incredibly gullible.

Selective truth

Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals we dare not present to them.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

Propaganda is bad when it comes from the enemy. It is good when it comes from us.

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.

If you heard 40 times in a day that Newt Gingrich takes the wings off of butterflies, eventually you'd believe it.

People usually believe anything that they are told early and often.

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

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

There are a lot of people who call themselves teachers or leaders, but they're really just propagandists.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.