If you tell a lie, tell a big one.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSIt is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.
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It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
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The life is worth living. It’s not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We’re not on this earth to suffer and die. We’re here to fulfill a mission.
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Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
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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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To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.
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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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You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide
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The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.
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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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Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.
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Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.
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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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Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies. Aristocracy with the meaning – the best are ruling. Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its people’s sovereignty the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don’t want to be recognized.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity
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A Jew is for me an object of disgust. I feel like vomiting when I see one. Christ could not possibly have been a Jew. It is not necessary to prove that scientifically – it is a fact. I do not need to prove this with science or scholarship. It is so!
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Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.
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A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory.
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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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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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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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Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good. The new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.
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