Commend while others are criticizing, persist while others are quitting
Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?
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.
I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life.
I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character.
A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time. ' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.