The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans.

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.

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.

Start three bars before something.

I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You might read one over the course of a summer, but that isn't what I want to write.

I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed.

I am made to tremble and I fear!

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

Mandela? He lasted 27 years in prison but he never could've done 30.

I have a car that I like - an Aston Martin - for Sunday drives in the country.