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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
Autobiographer
Demagogue
Diarist
German Politician
Journalist
Novelist
Politician
Propagandist
Screenwriter
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Goebbels
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Bigger
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Follow
Lying
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Principle

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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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Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
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He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.
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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.
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To be modern only means to fill new forms with eternal truths.
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We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.
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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.
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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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The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.
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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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Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.
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At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.
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Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
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If you tell a lie, tell a big one.
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You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide
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[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.
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Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx .
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