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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.

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German] Reich. All over this territory, which would be of an enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.

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

Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated _x000D_ are confident they are acting on their own free will.

If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.

There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.

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 that scientifically - it is a fact. I do not need to prove this with science or scholarship. It is so!

The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames.

We have made the Reich by propaganda

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

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth

Good propaganda does not need to lie, indeed it may not lie. It has no reason to fear the truth. It is a mistake to believe that people cannot take the truth. They can. It is only a matter of presenting the truth to people in a way that they will be able to understand. A propaganda that lies proves that it has a bad cause. It cannot be successful in the long run.

He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.

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.

It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. 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.

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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