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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.

Joseph Goebbels

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Joseph Goebbels
Age: 47 †
Born: 1897
Born: October 29
Died: 1945
Died: May 1
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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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Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
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If you tell a lie, tell a big one.
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If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.
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Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.
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During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information.
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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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We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals
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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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Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.
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Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual that will necessarily change the way things are.
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[Hitler thought] that Mussolini was no figure of world history, like der Fuehrer or Stalin.
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I'm so despondent about everything. Everything I try goes totally wrong. There's no escape from this hole here. I feel drained. So far, I still haven't found a real purpose in life. Sometimes, I'm afraid to get out of bed in the morning. There's nothing to get up for.
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Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.
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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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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 fatherland shall one day be like this: We're not all equal, but we're all brothers.
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It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrers birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today
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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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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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