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“[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way.”

Quote by Adolf Hitler

Book:Mein Kampf

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Written by Adolf Hitler, this book details his political beliefs and the ideology that led to the rise of the Nazi party. more

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Adolf Hitler, born on April 20, 1889, and died on April 30, 1945, was a significant political figure in German history. He served as the Chancellor and Führer of Nazi Germany, playing a decisive role in the outbreak of World War II and having a profound impact on world history during his reign. more

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“[This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with.”

Firsts Kind Problem Attitude Conditions Media Propaganda Fulfilled One Sided

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.”

Emotion Media Mass Intellectual Propaganda Consideration Modest Mein Kampf Ballast

Book:Mein Kampf

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“For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.”

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Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses are slow moving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready even to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.”

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Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“When there is change, it must not alter the content of what propaganda is driving at, but in the end must always say the same thing. For instance, a slogan must be presented from different angles, but the end of all remarks must always and immutably be the slogan itself. Only in this way can the propaganda have a unified and complete effect.”

Way Different Ends Effects Media Driving Instance Propaganda Angle Remarks Slogans Unified Different Angles

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Source: Mein Kampf

“To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.”

Should Media Mass Educated Propaganda Mass Media

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“As soon as one point alone is removed from the sphere of dogmatic certainty, the discussion will not simply result in a new and better formulation which will have greater consistency but may easily lead to endless debates and general confusion.”

May Results Media Debate Endless Confusion Certainty Discussion Propaganda Spheres Dogmatic

Author:Adolf Hitler

“The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.”

Has Beens Lying Behinds Media Propaganda Mein Kampf

Book:Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)

Source: Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)

“If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“The great masses of people do not consist of philosophers; precisely for the masses, faith is often the sole foundation of a moral attitude. ... For the political man, the value of a religion must be estimated less by its deficiencies than by the virtue of a visibly better substitute.”

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Author:Adolf Hitler