I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless; the poison is in the sugar.

In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

Public-relations specialists make flower arrangements of the facts, placing them so that the wilted and less attractive petals are hidden by sturdy blooms.

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift betwen the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Every occasion had its propaganda ... You had a desire, a view, a line, and you disseminated it.

Unfortunately, propaganda works.