The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSPropaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good. The new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.
More Joseph Goebbels Quotes
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In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!
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Our starting point is not the individual: We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked. Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world.
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What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place.
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It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.
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The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.
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Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.
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When you stroll through Munich it can happen that you suddenly stand in front of an old house, an idyllically-dreaming church that smiles like a friendly anachronism into our modern time.
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The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.
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The Jew is contrary to our being. He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.
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Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
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A nation without a religion – that is like a man without breath.
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Man only honors what he conquers or defends.
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The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.
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The fatherland shall one day be like this: We’re not all equal, but we’re all brothers.
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We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.
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