Adolf Hitler Quotes

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

The secret to modern propaganda is to simplify and repeat.

Psychologically, when you hear something a number of times, you start to believe it.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

The public is gullible. ... If [many satirists are] making the same joke, that's the danger. Then there's a solidifying effect and it becomes a truth.

Without knowing your own history, you are doomed to repeat it.

The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation.

The power of propaganda is to say something enough times that it becomes the Big Lie.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

[The crowd] will finally succeed in remembering only the simplest concepts repeated a thousand times.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

He looks at one of the pictures for a long time. Then he looks at me. "I'll keep you up here." He taps his temple. "Where you can't get lost.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

There is nothing that you may not get people to believe in if you will only tell it them loud enough and often enough, till the welkin rings with it.

It is necessary to gain the common people to our order. The best means to that end is influence in the schools.

The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.

We tend to believe in the modern secular world that if you tell someone something once, they'll remember it. ... Religions go, "Nonsense. You need to keep repeating the lesson 10 times a day. So get on your knees and repeat it." That's what all religions tell us: "Get on your knees and repeat it 10 or 20 or 15 times a day." Otherwise our minds are like sieves.

It is really - one of the things in it that I heard yesterday in his testimony that I thought was disturbing was this - what did he call it? - a massive persuasion campaign. That sounded a little bit like Goebbels or Gore-bels.

Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction.