We are socialists because we see in socialism, that is the union of all citizens, the only chance to maintain our racial inheritance and to regain our political freedom and renew our German state. Joseph Goebbels More Quotes by Joseph Goebbels More Quotes From Joseph Goebbels A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth Joseph Goebbels remainsthousandlying 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 psychology. Joseph Goebbels psychologyyieldmen If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself. Joseph Goebbels believelyingpeople Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated Joseph Goebbels propagandafree-willacting 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. Joseph Goebbels propagandasecretideas Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred. Joseph Goebbels propagandatargethatred ...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious. Joseph Goebbels notablegunsimple 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. Joseph Goebbels yieldmedia-controltruth Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. Joseph Goebbels warpeacethinking There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph. Joseph Goebbels triumphweightlying Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose. Joseph Goebbels propagandanewspurpose It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion. Joseph Goebbels public-opinionpoliticalschool We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come. Joseph Goebbels stupidgivingorder 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. Joseph Goebbels circlessquaresideas The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it. Joseph Goebbels biggerlying We shall reach our goal, when we have the power to laugh as we destroy, as we smash, whatever was sacred to us as tradition, as education, and as human affection. Joseph Goebbels sacredgoallaughing 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 essencewinningideas If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth. Joseph Goebbels longlyinginteresting There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content. Joseph Goebbels drugintellectualwar 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! Joseph Goebbels vomitingholocaustneeds
