We’re suspicious of any organization that uncritically accepts the dubious Goebbels quotation. It indicates a lack of an ability to evaluate information.
The latest example is the Centre for Research on Globalization, a Canadian organization. In a post on 7 January 2016 titled “France’s Police State: The Gravediggers of the French Republic,” it uses the quotation to support the argument that French security measures are about to turn France into a police state the equal of Nazi Germany.
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. [Falsely attributed to Joseph Goebbels]