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.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSThe 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.
More Joseph Goebbels Quotes
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Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
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Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.
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If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.
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Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don’t have to prove that scientifically. It’s a fact.
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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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To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.
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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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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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Man is and remains an animal. Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.
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Do not seek Adolf Hitler with your mind. You will find him through the strength of your hearts.
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During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.
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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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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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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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Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
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