If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSTo 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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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 we have power, we’ll never give it up again unless we’re carried out of our offices as corpses.
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The Jew is contrary to our being. He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.
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Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
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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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Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.
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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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Our starting point is not the individual: We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked. Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world.
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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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We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time, or as the greatest criminals.
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It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.
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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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Man is and remains an animal. Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.
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The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead. The past lies in flames.
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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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