Jean Anouilh Quotes

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

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

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

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 requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

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

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.

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.

If you repeat something long enough people believe it's what happened.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

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

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

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

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

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

I'm a bit of a propagandist.

When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.

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.