Joseph Goebbels Quotes

Unfortunately, propaganda works.

We're in a world of propaganda. Some of it is all to effective.

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.

If we turn to the war in Kosovo, what do we find? We find the manipulation of the audience's emotions by the mass media.

You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

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

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way.

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

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.

I set the propaganda machine in motion. Now we will see what the apparatus will do.

The masses are absolutely being manipulated by those in power.

Give me the writing of a nation's advertising and propaganda, and I care not who governs its politics.

In order to govern you have to feed the news cycle

The primary purpose of the media is to mobilize support for the controlling interests.

Socialists have infiltrated our schools, our law courts, our government, our MEDIA OF COMMUNICATIONS. ... the Socialist movement is made up of a relatively small number of people who have developed the TECHNIQUE OF INFLUENCING large masses of people to a VERY HIGH DEGREE

Our politicians want to keep us in a negative state because they can easily manipulate us.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.