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The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it.

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Joseph Goebbels
Age: 47 †
Born: 1897
Born: October 29
Died: 1945
Died: May 1
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Demagogue
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German Politician
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Propagandist
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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.
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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 thirsty, or clothe the naked … Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world.
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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.
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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 risk of looking ridiculous.
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Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.
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If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.
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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 a friendly anachronism into our modern time.
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I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.
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Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.
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Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.
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Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
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The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.
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...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
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Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.
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It takes a bomb under his arse to make Hitler see logic.
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Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
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