Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSHypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSChrist cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don’t have to prove that scientifically. It’s a fact.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSWe 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.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSEverything is what you make of it, even yourself.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSWe can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSChristianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSAs 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.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSThink of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSIt 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.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSIf we have power, we’ll never give it up again unless we’re carried out of our offices as corpses.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSTo attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSThat 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.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSWhoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSA nation without a religion – that is like a man without breath.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSIt is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSRevolutions 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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