If you tell a lie, tell a big one.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSIf you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.
More Joseph Goebbels Quotes
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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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If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.
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Man only honors what he conquers or defends.
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The 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.
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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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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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Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
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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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