The fatherland shall one day be like this: We're not all equal, but we're all brothers.

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.

Life is science.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.

We'll go here on [Donald] Trump's temperament. Trump's reckless approach could lead to war. That really resonated with Democratic swing voters.

You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.

You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.