> 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.
>
> Joseph Goebbels
the big lie ^^^^^
In fact, Goebbels' views were quite different than what this fraudulent quote
suggests. He consistently held that propaganda should be accurate and truthful.
http://www.ihr.org/other/weber2011fakequotations.html
The astonishing thing is that Mr. Churchill, a genuine John Bull, holds to his
lies, and in fact repeats them until he himself believes them. That is an old
English trick. Mr. Churchill does not need to perfect it, as it is one of the
familiar tactics of
British politics, known to the entire world.
the real Joseph Goebbels
https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb29.htm
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