Art is not a mirror but a hammer.

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

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.

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

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.

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.

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