Big Caesars and Little Caesars Quotes

“Brutality, but also vulgarity. Propaganda, Hitler tells us, must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses . . . All propaganda must be popular, and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to . . . The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan . . . only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.34”
― Ferdinand Mount, Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson