A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity

A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.

...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.

The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

Without his father's shadow in a way, he's beautiful.

I don't need gold in heaven, I gotta have it now.

My music has always been strong in melodic content.

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.

You cannot love without intuition.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.

See how these Christians love one another.

Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression.

People in New York love having roof parties.