Great Throughts Treasury

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Joseph Goebbels, fully Paul Joseph Goebbels

German Politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany

"A sharp sword must always stand behind propaganda if it is to be really effective."

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

"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."

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

"If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. "