Noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPropaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. Eric Hoffer
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. Hannah Arendt
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
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
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth. John F. Kennedy