116 Quotes by Joseph Goebbels

The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

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 rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

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’s necessary to exterminate these Jews like rats, once and for all. In Germany, thank God, we’ve already taken care of that. I hope that the world will follow this example.

A fourteen-year-old lad crouching with his bazooka behind a ruined wall on a burned out street is worth more to the nation than ten intellectuals who attempt to prove that our chances now are nil.

You can’t change the masses. They will always be the same: dumb, gluttonous and forgetful.

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.