[MLUG - DISCUSSION] relevant quotations

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I imagine that Cheney is aware of some of the history of WWII and has 
learned from from Goebbels' Principles of Propaganda.  Here are some nice 
quotations.  I'm not 100% sure that all these quotes are correct (and they 
must have been utterred originally in German), but you get the basic idea! 
--Mike


"The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie 
than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated over and over."
   -- Adolph Hitler


"The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed"
   --Paul Joseph Goebbels

"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless 
one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly... it must confine 
itself to a few points and repeat them over and over."
   --Paul Joseph Goebbels

"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 becomes the greatest enemy of the state."
   -- Paul Joseph Goebbels


"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of 
public opinion."
   --Paul Joseph Goebbels



http://www.bartleby.com/59/10/goebbelsjose.html

Paul Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), German Nazi leader, Minister of Propaganda.

A German political leader of the twentieth century. Goebbels was 
propaganda minister of the Nazi government and a close confidant of the 
leader, Adolf Hitler. Goebbels.s policy was based on the notion that a 
lie, repeated often and forcibly, gains the legitimacy of truth. When the 
defeat of Germany seemed inevitable, he killed himself and his family.
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