Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSAt night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.
More Joseph Goebbels Quotes
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Man only honors what he conquers or defends.
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The life is worth living. It’s not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We’re not on this earth to suffer and die. We’re here to fulfill a mission.
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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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Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
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At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.
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The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.
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A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.
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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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When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.
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If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.
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It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.
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A nation without a religion – that is like a man without breath.
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin.
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In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!
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If we have power, we’ll never give it up again unless we’re carried out of our offices as corpses.
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If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.
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The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.
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Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.
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This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.
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If you tell a lie, tell a big one.
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Mozart didn’t need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.
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I’m looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.
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To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.
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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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The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.
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A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job.
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