The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it.
JOSEPH GOEBBELSIf you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.
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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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The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.
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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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Mozart didn’t need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.
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If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction.
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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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We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time, or as the greatest criminals.
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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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This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.
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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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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 masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.
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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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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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When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.
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The fatherland shall one day be like this: We’re not all equal, but we’re all brothers.
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I’m so despondent about everything. Everything I try goes totally wrong. There’s no escape from this hole here. I feel drained. So far, I still haven’t found a real purpose in life. Sometimes, I’m afraid to get out of bed in the morning. There’s nothing to get up for.
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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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Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.
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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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Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.
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Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.
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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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Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.
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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 is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.
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