If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.

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.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength.

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down.

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

It's more about, when I found someone that made me feel really happy, that was so different to the way I'd felt before in my life.

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

The success of the film should depend on its budget.

You can't change your game based on where you're playing.