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The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.