Definition of Propaganda

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Propaganda

A congregation of cardinals, established in 1622, charged with the management of missions.

The college of the Propaganda, instituted by Urban VIII. (1623-1644) to educate priests for missions in all parts of the world.

Hence, any organization or plan for spreading a particular doctrine or a system of principles.

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Propaganda Quotations

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky

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

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Douglas MacArthur

The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
Harry S. Truman

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.
Vladimir Lenin

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffer

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
Gertrude Stein

Propaganda Translations

propaganda in Dutch is verspreiding, propaganda
propaganda in French is propagande

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