Everything is what you make of it, even yourself.

A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth

Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.

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.

...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.

There will come a day, when all the lies will collapse under their own weight, and truth will again triumph.

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.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

Dance away your density and celebrate your splendor.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

To know how glorious you are, it is only after your death.

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

I figure I write for people who are intelligent enough to do some labor. Lazy readers are not my ideal readers.

I'm very inspired by a lot of things from the past, from Cher to Diana Ross.

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.