“The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated again and again.”

—  Adolf Hitler

This misquote could possibly have two possible sources: an abridged version of a paragraph in Mein Kampf regarding the Big Lie, or a report by the United States Office of Strategic Services about Hitler's psychological profile http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/oss-papers/text/oss-profile-03-02.html. The second version is very close to an actual quote by Joseph Goebbels.
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Variant: The bigger/more blatant a lie, the more people will believe it.

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