Quote from Leonard Schapiro 

"No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance."

Quote by:
Leonard Schapiro
(1908-1983) British academic, London School of Economics, Professor of Political Science with Special Reference to Russian Studies
Source:
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 2nd ed (New York Random House, 1971), 477.
 
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