Reply #12: Thanks! "Big Lie" Quotation [View All]

[rwenos]

"The sound principle that the magnitude of a lie always contains a certain factor of credibility since the great masses of the people in the very bottom of their hearts tend to be corrupted rather than consciously and purposely evil, and that therefore, in view of the primitive simplicity of their minds, they more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one, since they themselves lie in little things, but would be ashamed of lies that were too big. Such a falsehood will never enter their heads, and they will not be able to believe the possibility of such monstrous effrontery and infamous misrepresentations in others; even when enlightened on the subject, they will long doubt and waver, and continue to accept at least one of these causes as true.

"Therefore, something of even the most insolent lie will always remain and stick."

A. Hitler, Mein Kampf, pp. 231-232, Berlin (1924).