Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSThe masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.
More Joseph Goebbels Quotes
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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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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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A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity
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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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Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.
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A nation without a religion – that is like a man without breath.
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The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.
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Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
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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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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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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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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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O this world is beautiful because of you! To love somebody means that we’re closer to God.
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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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It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
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