Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Big Lies, How & Why to Maintain Them

"If you tell a lie big enough
... and keep repeating it,
people will eventually come to believe it.
The lie can be maintained only for such time
as the State can shield the people from the political,
economic and/or military consequences of the lie.
It thus becomes vitally important
for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent,
for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie,
and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." --Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda

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'Nuff said.

1 comment:

SGL Café.com said...

i like the 'young' part.

but ... i'm only political about the things that really touch my heart. And this passage is relevent in so many ways.