Joseph Goebbels Quotes

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

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

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.

I'm a bit of a propagandist.

Propaganda tries to surround man by all possible routes in the realm of feelings as well as ideas, by playing on his will or on his needs, through his conscious and his unconscious, assailing him in both his private and his public life. It furnishes him with a complete system for explaining the world, and provides immediate incentives to action.

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

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader.

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.

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

Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.

Communication is always "propaganda." The emitter always wants "to get something across."

The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.

Increasingly, people have very little tolerance for anything that smacks of propaganda.

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.

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

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

Advertising is legalized lying.

The strategies and assumptions [of the propaganda model] are fundamentally contrary to a democratic model.... The goal of the propaganda model is simply to achieve efficient indoctrination, and it therefore tends to regard the assumptions of the democratic model as inconvenient obstacles to efficient communication.

What's public is propaganda, what's secret is serious.

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