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1 " Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place... "
― Joseph Goebbels
2 " 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. "
3 " We demand for every working man work and bread!For the people, a place to live. No democrat has the rightto deny these. We want action!We demand war against the profiteers, peace with the workers!We demand a solution to the Jewish question. WeWant all foreign races out of German life,We demand an end to the German parliament. We want a leader above the mob.We demand death sentences for crimes against the people! To the gallows with the profiteers and money-lenders! "
4 " If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction.. "
5 " The Jew is immunized against all dangers: One may call him a scoundrel, parasite, swindler, profiteer, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him a Jew and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: "I’ve been found out". "
― Joseph Goebbels , Goebbels on the Jews: The Complete Diary Entries - 1923 to 1945
6 " Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. "
7 " 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. "
8 " We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals "
9 " 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. "
10 " The mission of women is to be beautiful and to bring children into the world. "
11 " The woman is the teacher of the youth, and therefore the builder of the foundation of the future. If the family is the nation’s source of strength, the woman is its core and centre. The best place for the woman to serve her people is in her marriage, in the family, in motherhood. "
12 " Man only honors what he conquers or defends. "
13 " Success is the important thing. Propaganda is not a matter for average minds, but rather a matter for practitioners. It is not supposed to be lovely or theoretically correct. I do not care if I give wonderful, aesthetically elegant speeches, or speak so that women cry. The point of a political speech is to persuade people of what we think right. I speak differently in the provinces than I do in Berlin, and when I speak in Bayreuth, I say different things than I say in the Pharus Hall. That is a matter of practice, not of theory. We do not want to be a movement of a few straw brains, but rather a movement that can conquer the broad masses. Propaganda should be popular, not intellectually pleasing. It is not the task of propaganda to discover intellectual truths. "
14 " Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal. "
15 " Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its "people's sovereignty" the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don't want to be recognized. "
16 " You can’t change the masses. They will always be the same: dumb, gluttonous and forgetful. "
17 " Our starting point is not the individual:We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked … Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world. "
18 " What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel. "
19 " Berndt handed in a plan for the occultist propaganda to be carried on by us. We are getting somewhere. The Americans and English fall easily to this kind of propaganda. We are therefore pressing into service all star witnesses of occult prophecy. Nostradamus must once again submit to being quoted. "
20 " Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future. "
