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.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSA media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity
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There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.
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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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Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
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He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.
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The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead. The past lies in flames.
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If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.
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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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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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We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.
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If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.
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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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Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?
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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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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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We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to us as tradition, as education, and as human affection.
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