The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand.
Man only honors what he conquers or defends.
A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth
There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the **er, and this will always be "the man in the street. " Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.
If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.
Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.
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.
People treat us the way we teach them to treat us.
If you have birds, or if you're a herpetologist and raise reptiles - you look in those eyes, and there is nothing there that's human. I mean, they don't think like us, they don't see the world like us.
Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?
Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.