Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.

I respected my father. But I loved my mother.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.”

The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.

It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.

What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!

Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.

The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.

If the lie is large enough, everyone will believe it.