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 cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form

My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.

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

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

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

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.