Joseph Goebbels Quotes

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

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

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

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

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 noticing that they are being immersed in it.

...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.

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

The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

There is no need for propaganda to be rich in intellectual content.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it.

In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!

The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.

You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide

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.

If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth.

A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity

As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals

The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

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

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.

Do not seek Adolf Hitler with your mind. You will find him through the strength of your hearts.

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

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

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.

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.

If you tell a lie, tell a big one.

Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.

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.

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.

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.

We have made the Reich by propaganda

A law against hating Jews is usually the beginning of the end for the Jews.

To attract people, to win over people to that which I have realized as being true, that is called propaganda.

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.

If we have power, we'll never give it up again unless we're carried out of our offices as corpses

The fatherland shall one day be like this: We're not all equal, but we're all brothers.

Crisis is the path to happiness. Decay and disintegration do not spell doom, but ascent and beginning. The powerful forces of a new creation operate in the hush beyond the noise of the day.

I'm looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.

The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.