During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“This is the secret of propaganda: He, who is the target of propaganda, should be completely immersed in the ideas of propaganda,… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth. It is… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
“Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share
[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share
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… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share
There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger,… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share
Our starting point is not the individual: We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share
If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share
A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share
Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share
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… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share
At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share
If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation.… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share
