Occupation: German Politician Birth: October 29, 1897 Death: May 1, 1945
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion..
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 nev….
During a war, news should be given out for instruction rather than information..
If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth..
If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses.
There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger,….
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 hum….
A Jew is for me an object of disgust. I feel like vomiting when I see one. Christ could not possibly have been a Jew. It is not necessary to prove th….
We have made the Reich by propaganda.
The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself….
This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noti….
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 c….
We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tic….
If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself..
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 s….
We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals.
A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.
...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious..
Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play..
Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose..
There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph..