Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position so as to benefit oneself or one's group.
As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda is often biased, with facts selectively presented (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses l...
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- Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. ,
- The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gas mask handy, it is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth. ,
- Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. ,
- The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. ,
- Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true. ,
- The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times. ,
- Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
