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.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSA media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity
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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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Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
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Christianity 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.
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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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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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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 not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.
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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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To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.
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We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.
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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.
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If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.
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There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.
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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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Man only honors what he conquers or defends.
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Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.
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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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A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job.
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During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.
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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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I’m looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.
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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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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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Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.
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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 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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