Dictatorship Quotes

The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight ... has not the right to exist.

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: 'by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.'

What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

Cruelty impresses, people want to be afraid of something. They want someone to whom they can submit with a shudder, the masses need that. They need something to dread.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.

The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.

I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at all these men and boys! What material! With you and I, we can make a new world.

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly and with unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.