“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.”

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

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.

If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.

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.

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.

The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

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.

If we have power, we’ll never give it up again unless we’re carried out of our offices as corpses.

Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don’t have to prove that scientifically. It’s a fact.

We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.

The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly – it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Never test the depth of river with both the feet.

Until you find yourself, it’s impossible to lose you.

After awhile you could get used to anything.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.