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During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.

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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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Man only honors what he conquers or defends.
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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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If you tell a lie, tell a big one.
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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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Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
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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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Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
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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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Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated.
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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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