If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of 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.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
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Some of mankind's most terrible misdeeds have been committed under the spell of certain magic words or phrases.
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Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other read more
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."—
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
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Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
