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“To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.” quote by Joseph Goebbels — Download Open image

“To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.”

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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…

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[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.

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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…

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Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

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There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger, and this will always be "the man in the street." Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and…

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If you tell a lie, tell a big one.

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Our starting point is not the individual: We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the…

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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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A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity

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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…

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If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.

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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…

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