There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSToday there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.
More Joseph Goebbels Quotes
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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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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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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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If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.
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The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.
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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 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.
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If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.
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I’m so despondent about everything. Everything I try goes totally wrong. There’s no escape from this hole here. I feel drained. So far, I still haven’t found a real purpose in life. Sometimes, I’m afraid to get out of bed in the morning. There’s nothing to get up for.
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Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.
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Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.
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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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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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The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we’re closer to God.
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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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A law against hating Jews is usually the beginning of the end for the Jews.
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If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction.
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It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrers birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today
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The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead. The past lies in flames.
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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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