The Flowers of Evil

“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. .. It thus becomes vitally important for the state to use all 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.”

“Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place…”

“Propaganda must faciliate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.”

(Joseph Goebbels, 1897-1945)