Quote

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.

Joseph Goebbels

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joseph Goebbels
Age: 47 †
Born: 1897
Born: October 29
Died: 1945
Died: May 1
Autobiographer
Demagogue
Diarist
German Politician
Journalist
Novelist
Politician
Propagandist
Screenwriter
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Goebbels
Failing
Fails
Achieve
Propaganda
Results
Task
Success
Leads
Good
Tasks
Result
Intelligent
Lead
Desired

More quotes by Joseph Goebbels

Image
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.
Joseph Goebbels
Image
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 new ones in their place.
Joseph Goebbels
Image
Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
Joseph Goebbels
Image
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.
Joseph Goebbels
Image
[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.
Joseph Goebbels
Image
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.
Joseph Goebbels
Image
We have made the Reich by propaganda
Joseph Goebbels
Image
We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.
Joseph Goebbels
Image
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 a friendly anachronism into our modern time.
Joseph Goebbels
Image
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
Image
Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.
Joseph Goebbels
Image
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
Image
Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated.
Joseph Goebbels
Image
Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.
Joseph Goebbels
Image
Our starting point is not the individual: We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked … Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world.
Joseph Goebbels
Image
Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
Joseph Goebbels
Image
You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide
Joseph Goebbels
Image
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.
Joseph Goebbels
Image
There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.
Joseph Goebbels
Image
A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth
Joseph Goebbels