It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

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.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!

Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

Confession is like a bridle that keeps the soul which reflects on it from committing sin, but anything left unconfessed we continue to do without fear as if in the dark.

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

I think any stereotyping is too much.