Joseph Goebbels Quotes

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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
• It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
• If you repeat a lie often enough if becomes accepted as truth.
• ...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
• There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity
• If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.
• The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed.
• We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals
• Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.
• 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…
• Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated.
• 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…
• Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
• 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…
• Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth. It is a mistake to…
• He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.

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