Joseph Goebbels Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
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“As 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.”
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“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
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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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“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
-- Joseph GoebbelsSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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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“To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.”
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“Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place...”
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“A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.”
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“Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.”
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“The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.”
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“One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. 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.”
-- Joseph GoebbelsSource : "Aus Churchills Lügenfabrik" ("Churchill's Lie Factory"), 12 January 1941; "Die Zeit ohne Beispiel" by Joseph Goebbels, Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP, (pp. 364-369), 1941.
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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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“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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“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 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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“You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide”
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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 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 war we are fighting until victory or the bitter end is in its deepest sense a war between Christ and Marx. Christ: the principle of love. Marx: the principle of hate.”
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“If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.”
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“Whoever 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.”
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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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“THERE WILL COME A DAY WHEN ALL THE LIES WILL COLLAPSE UNDER THEIR OWN WEIGHT, AND THE TRUTH WILL TRIUMPH AGAIN”
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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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“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.”
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“It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrers birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today”
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“Man only honors what he conquers or defends.”
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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 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.”
-- Joseph Goebbels
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