Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSThe rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
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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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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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A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity
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I believe in God. When everything collapses, we grip the last hold, we look from the secure haven how the godless society of the old, holy Europe falls apart. May the game begin.
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A law against hating Jews is usually the beginning of the end for the Jews.
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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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We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.
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If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.
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There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.
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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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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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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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A nation without a religion – that is like a man without breath.
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Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.
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During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.
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As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation’s goods.
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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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There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.
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The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.
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To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.
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To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.
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You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide
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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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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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He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.
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