“The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.”

Man is and remains an animal. Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

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.

A law against hating Jews is usually the beginning of the end for the Jews.

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies. Aristocracy with the meaning – the best are ruling. Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its people’s sovereignty the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don’t want to be recognized.

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.

Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.

The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead. The past lies in flames.

The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it.

That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end.

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

I suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.