Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

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.

Heavy burden is laid on our hearts, so we do not trust in ourselves. But in God, who gives grace for endurance.

I was just thinking of you, ” she said…

I've got 99 problems and I won't let you have the honor of being my 100th.

Believing in the inherent good of humankind is akin to having faith. It is to believe in something that may not be readily apparent.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

At the factory, I deal with ex-cons, substance abusers, and sexual harassers. And I'm not just talking about my mom.

No statement, theological or otherwise, should be made that would not be credible in the presence of burning children.

I'm a pretty quiet guy, but if people want to think of me as a lady killer, I guess that's good.

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.