When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.

We believe that the materials and the stories taken from the raw can be finer (more real in the philosophic sense) than the acted article.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

I look on cinema as a pulpit, and use it as a propagandist.