PROPAGANDA

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1. When teachers take up a text book in civics or economics they do not know to what extent vital parts of it have been "doctored" to suit private parties who expect to make profits out of "educating" the public to take their views of governmental policy.—CHARLES A. BEARD, American Leviathan
   

2. The propagandist is a missionary.—GEORGE CATLIN, Propaganda as a Function of Democratic Government
   

3. In both dictatorships and democracies propaganda is, as it always has been, an indispensable agent of social control.—H. L. CHILDS, Propaganda & Dictatorship
   

4. Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.—JAMES BRYANT CONANT
   

5. Slogans are both exciting and comforting, but they are also powerful opiates for the conscience.—JAMES BRYANT CONANT
   

6. Furious Propaganda, with her brand,
   Fires the dry prairies of our wide Waste Land;
   Making the Earth, Man's temporal station, be
   One stinking altar to Publicity.—LEE W. DODD, The Great Enlightenment

7. If you wish to win the sympathy of broad masses then you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.—ADOLF HITLER, Mein Kampf

8. We live in a propaganda age. Public opinion no longer is formulated by the slow processes of what Professor John Dewey calls shared experience. In our time public opinion is primarily a response to propaganda stimuli.—Institute for Propaganda Analysis

9. There are in our time societies which are not free. In these societies there are no competing propagandas. This freedom has already been lost, and, alas, lost partly through propaganda.—Institute for Propaganda Analysis
   

10. If there is a right and a wrong in propaganda, it is to be found in the relation between means and ends, methods and purposes, and not in propaganda itself.—Institute for Propaganda Analysis

11. If one assumes that propaganda is a method utilized for influencing the conduct of others on behalf of predetermined ends, it appears that every articulate person with a purpose is a propagandist.—Institute for Propaganda Analysis
    

12. The study of propaganda goes to the heart of the most compelling popular, practical and scholarly issue of our time, which is the nature of the connection between what men think and how men live.—H. D. LASSWELL, The Scope of Research on Propaganda & Dictatorship
    

13. It is notorious that propaganda thrives where overt dissent flourishes.—H. D. LASSWELL, The Scope of Research on Propaganda & Dictatorship
    

14. Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand, to be produced immediately.—MACHIAVELLI
    

15. Supporting springs from identification. To bring about identification is the goal of propaganda.—F. M. MARX, State Propaganda in Germany
    

16. Political propaganda has become the chief internal weapon of governments, and it is employed not only to persuade a sufficient number of people that a particular course of action is expedient or right, but to keep whole populations in a complete, and, it is apparently hoped, a perpetual emotional subjection.—A. B. WHITE, The New Propaganda