To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSThe 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.
More Joseph Goebbels Quotes
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The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.
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Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
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We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time, or as the greatest criminals.
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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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I’m looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.
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Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.
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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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The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead. The past lies in flames.
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It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.
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Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.
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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.
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The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
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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.
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Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.
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The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.
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During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.
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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 English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it.
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You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide
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The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.
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A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory.
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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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Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don’t have to prove that scientifically. It’s a fact.
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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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The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.
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Man is and remains an animal. Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.
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