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

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.

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.

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

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.