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Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.

Joseph Goebbels

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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
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The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.
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Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated.
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Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?
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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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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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If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.
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Man only honors what he conquers or defends.
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It takes a bomb under his arse to make Hitler see logic.
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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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During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.
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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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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.
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Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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We have made the Reich by propaganda
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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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