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All Propaganda Must Be So Popular And On Such An Intellectual Level, That Even The Most Stupid Of Those Towards Whom It Is Directed Will Understand It. Therefore, The Intellectual Level Of The Propaganda Must Be Lower The Larger The Number Of People Who Are To Be Influenced By It.
-Adolf Hitler
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All Propaganda Must Be

Adolf Hitler
All Propaganda Must Be So Popular And On Such An Intellectual Level, That Even The Most Stupid Of Those Towards Whom It Is Directed Will Understand It. Therefore, The Intellectual Level Of The Propaganda Must Be Lower The Larger The Number Of People Who Are To Be Influenced By It.
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Judging
Decision
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Fall
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Land
Two
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Milk
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Education
Science
Men
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Weapons
Matter
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Education
School
Rise To Power
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Media
Intellectual
Mein Kampf
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Peace
Men
World
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Passion
People
Torches
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Light
Two
World
Thank The Lord, Germanic Democracy Means Just This: That Any Old Climber Or Moral Slacker Cannot Rise By Devious Paths To Govern His National Comrades, But That, By The Very Greatness Of The Responsibility To Be Assumed, Incompetents And Weaklings Are Frightened Of.
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Responsibility
Greatness
Historically Speaking, The Christian Religion Is Nothing But A Jewish Sect... After The Destruction Of Judaism, The Extinction Of Christian Slave Morals Must Follow Logically... Ah, The God Of The Deserts, That Crazed, Stupid, Vengeful Asiatic Despot With His Power To Make Laws!
Christian
Religious
Stupid
World History Is Made By Minorities When This Minority Of Number Embodies The Majority Of Will And Determination.
Determination
Numbers
Majority
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Religious
Loneliness
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Dream
Reality
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Wish
Selfishness
Millennials
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Blood
Community
Humanity
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States
Concentration
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Miracle
Atheism
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Decision
Majority
Principles
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Country
Believe
Government
We Will Not Capitulate - No, Never! We May Be Destroyed, But If We Are, We Shall Drag A World With Us - A World In Flames.
Military
Flames
World
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France
February
Nations
It Seems To Me That Nothing Would Be More Foolish Than To Re-establish The Worship Of Wotan. Our Old Mythology Ceased To Be Viable When Christianity Implanted Itself. Nothing Dies Unless It Is Moribund.
Would Be
Worship
Christianity
Belief Is Harder To Shake Than Knowledge.
Belief
Harder
Shakes
Life Never Forgives Weaknesses.
Forgiving
Weakness
Never Forgive
One Of Our Most Important Tasks Will Be To Save Future Generations From A Similar Political Fate And To Maintain For Ever Watchful In Them A Knowledge Of The Menace Of Jewry. For This Reason Alone It Is Vital That The Passion Play Be Continued At Oberammergau; For Never Has The Menace Of Jewry Been So Convincingly Portrayed As In This Presentation Of What Happened In The Times Of The Romans. There One Sees In Pontius Pilate A Roman Racially And Intellectually So Superior, That He Stands Like A Firm, Clean Rock In The Middle Of The Whole Muck And Mire Of Jewry.
Passion
Fate
Rocks
A Single Blow Must Destroy The Enemy... Without Regard Of Losses... A Gigantic All-destroying Blow.
Military
Loss
Blow
One Should Guard Against Believing The Great Masses To Be More Stupid Than They Actually Are.
Wisdom
Stupid
Believe
What We Have To Fight For...is The Freedom And Independence Of The Fatherland, So That Our People May Be Enabled To Fulfill The Mission Assigned To It By The Creator.
Military
Fighting
People
For The Greatest Revolutionary Changes On This Earth Would Not Have Been Thinkable If Their Motive Force, Instead Of Fanatical, Yes, Hysterical Passion, Had Been Merely The Bourgeois Virtues Of Law And Order.
Religious
Passion
Order
You Only Have To Kick In The Door And The Whole Rotten Structure Will Come Crashing Down.
War
Doors
Rotten
What Luck, For Governments, That The People Are Stupid!
Stupid
Government
People
Paris Must Either Not Fall Into The Hands Of The Enemy Or The Enemy Must Find It Only A Wasteland.
War
Fall
Hands
This Human World Of Ours Would Be Inconceivable Without The Practical Existence Of A Religious Belief.
Religious
Catholic Religion
Atheism
For The Greater A Man's Works For The Future, The Less The Present Can Comprehend Them; The Harder His Fight, And The Rarer Success. If, However, Once In Centuries Success Does Come To A Man, Perhaps In His Latter Days A Faint Beam Of His Coming Glory May Shine Upon Him. To Be Sure, These Great Men Are Only The Marathon Runners Of History; The Laurel Wreath Of The Present Touches Only The Brow Of The Dying Hero.
Hero
Fighting
Men
The Conviction Of The Justification Of Using Even The Most Brutal Weapons Is Always Dependent On The Presence Of A Fanatical Belief In The Necessity Of The Victory Of A Revolutionary New Order On This Globe.
Order
Victory
Air Power
Great Nations Do Not Succumb Through Lost Wars, But Rather Through Racial Decay And The Destruction Of Their Internal Order.
War
Order
Decay
The War Against Russia Will Be Such That It Cannot Be Conducted In A Knightly Fashion. This Struggle Is One Of Ideologies And Racial Differences And Will Have To Be Conducted With Unprecedented, Unmerciful And Unrelenting Harshness.
Fashion
Military
War
The National Government Sees In Both Christian Denominations The Most Important Factor For The Maintenance Of Our Society.
Christian
Government
Religion
The Big Lie Is A Major Untruth Uttered Frequently By Leaders As A Means Of Duping And Controlling The Constituency.
Lying
Mean
Leader
An Evil Exists That Threatens Every Man, Woman, And Child Of This Great Nation. We Must Take Steps To Ensure Our Domestic Security And Protect Our Homeland.
Children
Men
Tyrants
We Need Not Fear The Judgement Of History. Who, After All, Speaks Today Of The Extermination Of The Armenians?
Evil
Judgement
Needs
The Stronger Must Dominate And Not Blend With The Weaker, Thus Sacrificing His Own Greatness.
Sacrifice
Greatness
Stronger
Our Task Is To Harness The God-given Energy Of This German Nation To Stand Firm For The Truth.
Energy
Tasks
Harness
We Have Made It Possible, Without Gold And Without Foreign Exchange, To Maintain The Value Of The German Mark. Behind The German Mark Stands The German Capacity For Work, While Some Foreign Countries, Suffocated By Gold, Have Been Compelled To Devalue Their Currencies.
Country
Gold
Currency
In This World Him Who Does Not Abandon Himself The Almighty Will Not Desert. Him Who Helps Himself Will The Almighty Always Also Help; He Will Show Him The Way By Which He Can Gain His Rights, His Freedom, And Therefore His Future.
Rights
Atheism
Doe
Sparta Must Be Regarded As The First Völkisch State. The Exposure Of The Sick, Weak, Deformed Children, In Short, Their Destruction, Was More Decent And In Truth A Thousand Times More Human Than The Wretched Insanity Of Our Day Which Preserves The Most Pathological Subject.
Children
Sick
Insanity
If Today I Stand Here As A Revolutionary, It Is As A Revolutionary Against The Revolution.
Rise To Power
Political
Germany
How Fortunate For Governments That The People They Administer Don't Think.
Thinking
Government
People
Parallel To The Training Of The Body A Struggle Against The Poisoning Of The Soul Must Begin. Our Whole Public Life Today Is Like A Hothouse For Sexual Ideas And Simulations. Just Look At The Bill Of Fare Served Up In Our Movies, Vaudeville And Theaters, And You Will Hardly Be Able To Deny That This Is Not The Right Kind Of Food, Particularly For The Youth. Theater, Art, Literature, Cinema, Press, Posters, And Window Displays Must Be Cleansed Of All Manifestations Of Our Rotting World And Placed In The Service Of A Moral, Political And Cultural Idea.
Art
Struggle
Ideas
Struggle Is The Father Of All Things, Virtue Lies In Blood, Leadership Is Primary And Decisive
Father
Military
Lying
You See, It's Been Our Misfortune To Have The Wrong Religion. Why Didn't We Have The Religion Of The Japanese, Who Regard Sacrifice For The Fatherland As The Highest Good? The Mohammedan Religion [islam] Too Would Have Been More Compatible To Us Than Christianity. Why Did It Have To Be Christianity With Its Meekness And Flabbiness?
Sacrifice
Islam
Christianity
Nearly All Bolshevist Agitators In Germany And Elsewhere Were Jews.
Germany
Jew
Elsewhere
The Thinking Of The One, Therefore, Will Be Determined By Eternal Truth, The Actions Of The Other More By The Practical Reality Of The Moment. The Greatness Of The One Lies In The Absolute Abstract Soundness Of His Idea.
Lying
Reality
Greatness
Gentlemen, You Are About To Witness The Most Famous Victory In History.
War
Gentleman
Victory
After 15 Years Of Work I Have Achieved, As A Common German Soldier And Merely With My Fanatical Willpower, The Unity Of The German Nation, And Have Freed It From The Death Sentence Of Versailles.
Years
Soldier
Unity
In Nearly All The Matters In Which The Pan-german Movement Was Wanting, The Attitude Of The Christian Social Party Was Correct And Well-planned.
Christian
Religious
Attitude
We National Socialists Must Hold Unflinchingly To Our Aim In Foreign Policy, Namely To Secure For The German People The Land And Soil To Which They Are Entitles On This Earth. And This Action Is The Only One Which, Before God And Or German Posterity, Would Make Any Sacrifice Of Blood Seem Justified: Before God, Since We Have Been Put On This Earth With The Mission Of Eternal Struggle For Our Daily Bread.
Struggle
Sacrifice
Land
Christianity Is A Rebellion Against Natural Law, A Protest Against Nature. Taken To Its Logical Extreme, Christianity Would Mean The Systematic Cultivation Of The Human Failure.
Taken
Mean
Law
Wipe Out The Entire Defense Potential Remaining To The Soviets.
War
Defense
Wipe
Your Birth May Be Common, But Death Must Be History.
May
Common
Birth
For We Love Liberty Just As We Love Peace.
Liberty
Peoples Which Bastardize Themselves, Or Let Themselves Be Bastardized, Sin Against The Will Of Eternal Providence.
Mein Kampf
Sin
Providence
If In The Past, After Every Lost War, The Unlucky Vanquished Were Divested Forever Of Their Honor And Their Equality Of Rights, The League Of Nations Would Even Now Have To Be Satisfied With A Whole Series Of Non-equal And Thus Ultimately Dishonorable And Inferior Nations.
War
Past
Rights
A People Of Scholars, If They Are Physically Degenerate, Weak-willed And Cowardly Pacifists, Will Not Storm The Heavens, Indeed, They Will Not Be Able To Safeguard Their Existence On This Earth.
Education
Science
People
It Doesn't Dawn On This Depraved Bourgeois World That This Is Positively A Sin Against All Reason; That It Is Criminal Lunacy To Keep On Drilling A Born Half-ape Until People Think They Have Made A Lawyer Out Of Him, While Millions Of Members Of The Highest Culture- Race Must Remain In Entirely Unworthy Positions; That It Is A Sin Against The Will Of The Eternal Creator If His Most Gifted Beings By The Hundreds And Hundreds Of Thousands Are Allowed To Degenerate In The Present Proletarian Morass, While Hottentots And Zulu Kaffirs Are Trained For Intellectual Professions.
Thinking
Race
People
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.
Believe
Fighting
Evil
It May Be That Today Gold Has Become The Exclusive Ruler Of Life, But The Time Will Come When Man Will Again Bow Down Before A Higher God.
Religious
Men
Gold
The German Has Not The Slightest Notion How A People Must Be Misled If The Adherence Of The Masses Is Sought.
Leadership
People
Adherence
There Are Certain Truths Which Stand Out So Openly On The Roadsides Of Life, As It Were, That Every Passer-by May See Them. Yet, Because Of Their Obviousness, The General Run Of People Disregard Such Truths Or At Least They Do Not Make Them The Object Of Any Concious Knowledge. People Are So Bliend To Some Of The Simplest Facts In Everyday Life That They Are Highly Surprised When Somebody Calls Attention To What Everybody Ought To Know.
Running
People
Everyday
The Church Has Realized That Anything And Everything Can Be Built Up On A Document Of That Sort, No Matter How Contradictory Or Irreconcilable With It. The Faithful Will Swallow It Whole, So Long As Logical Reasoning Is Never Allowed To Be Brought To Bear On It.
Religious
Logical Reasoning
Long
It Must Be Thoroughly Understood That The Lost Land Will Never Be Won Back By Solemn Appeals To The God, Nor By Hopes In Any League Of Nations, But Only By The Force Of Arms.
Military
Land
League
Only A Handful Of Germans In The Reich Had The Slightest Conception Of The Eternal And Merciless Struggle For The German Language, German Schools, And A German Way Of Life. Only Today, When The Same Deplorable Misery Is Forced On Many Millions Of Germans From The Reich, Who Under Foreign Rule Dream Of Their Common Fatherland And Strive, Amid Their Longing, At Least To Preserve Their Holy Right To Their Mother Tongue, Do Wider Circles Understand What It Means To Be Forced To Fight For One's Nationality.
Mother
Dream
Struggle
The State Is A Means To An End. Its End Lies In The Preservation And Advancement Of A Community Of Physically And Psychically Homogenous Creatures.
Lying
Mean
Community
Why Nationalize Industry When You Can Nationalize The People?
People
Fascism
Industry
...absolute Intolerance Also Provides Long Growth.
Long
Growth
Intolerance
In A War The Last Thing The English Know Is How To Practice Fair Play.
War
Practice
Play
In The Spanish People There Is A Mixture Of Gothic, Frankish And Moorish Blood. One Can Speak Of The Spaniard As One Would Speak Of A Brave Anarchist. The Arabian Epoch-the Arabs Look Down On The Turks As They Do On Dogs-was The Most Cultured, The Most Intellectual And In Every Way Best And Happiest Epoch In Spanish History. It Was Followed By The Period Of The Persecutions With Its Unceasing Atrocities.
Dog
Blood
People
The Attack Against Dogmas As Such, Therefore, Strongly Resembles The Struggle Against The General Legal Foundations Of A State, And , As The Latter Would End In A Total Anarchy Of The State, The Former Would End In A Worthless Religious Nihilism.
Religious
Struggle
Nihilism
With The Defeat Of The Reich And Pending The Emergence Of The Asiatic, The African And, Perhaps, The South American Nationalisms, There Will Remain In The World Only Two Great Powers Capable Of Confronting Each Other-the United States And Soviet Russia. The Laws Of Both History And Geography Will Compel These Two Powers To A Trial Of Strength, Either Military Or In The Fields Of Economics And Ideology. (2nd April 1945)
Military
Russia
Law
It [the Sudetenland] Is The Last Territorial Claim That I Have To Make In Europe.
Europe
Lasts
Claims
It Is Not The State That Orders Us; But It Is We Who Order The State!
Order
States
Nations
That This Is Possible May Not Be Denied In A World Where Hundreds And Hundreds Of Thousands Of People Voluntarily Submit To Celibacy, Obligated And Bound By Nothing Except The Injunction Of The Church. Should The Same Renunciation Not Be Possible If This Injunction Is Replaced By The Admonition Finally To Put An End To The Constant And Continuous Original Sin Of Racial Poisoning, And To Give The Almighty Creator Beings Such As He Himself Created?
Religious
People
Giving
Mankind Has Grown Strong In Eternal Struggles And It Will Only Perish Through Eternal Peace.
Peace
Strong
War
Neutrals And Lukewarms Do Not Make History.
Terrorism Is The Best Political Weapon For Nothing Drives People Harder Than A Fear Of Sudden Death.
People
History
Political
When I Came To Power, I Did Not Want The Concentration Camps To Become Old Age Pensioners Homes, But Instruments Of Terror.
Home
Holocaust
Age
If We Consider How Greatly He Has Sinned Against The Masses In The Course Of The Centuries, How He Has Squeezed And Sucked The Blood Again And Again; If Furthermore, We Consider How The People Gradually Learned To Hate Him For This, And Ended Up By Regarding His Existence As Nothing But Punishment Of Heaven For The Other Peoples, We Can Understand How Hard This Shift Must Be For The Jew.
Hate
Blood
Punishment
Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

1. Defining Quotes

A quote is a repetition of someone else's statement or thoughts. It can be a direct replication of words spoken or written by another individual, often used to support arguments, provide evidence, or convey profound insights.


2. The Importance of Quotes

2.1. Enhancing Credibility

Incorporating quotes from authoritative sources can bolster the credibility of your work. By referencing experts or primary sources, you demonstrate thorough research and a solid foundation for your arguments.


2.2. Providing Evidence

Quotes serve as concrete evidence to support claims. In academic and professional writing, they validate points made, offering readers a basis to trust the information presented.


2.3. Conveying Emotions and Perspectives

Quotes can encapsulate emotions and perspectives succinctly. They allow writers to express complex feelings or viewpoints through the words of others, often more eloquently than paraphrasing.


3. Types of Quotes

3.1. Direct Quotes

Direct quotes involve copying the exact words from a source, enclosed in quotation marks. They are used when the original wording is significant or particularly well-expressed.


3.2. Indirect Quotes (Paraphrasing)

Indirect quotes restate the original message in your own words. While not enclosed in quotation marks, they still require proper attribution to the original source.


3.3. Block Quotes

Block quotes are lengthy direct quotations, formatted as a separate block of text. They are typically used for quotes exceeding a certain length, varying by citation style. For instance, in APA style, quotes longer than 40 words are formatted as block quotes.



4. Proper Usage of Quotes


4.1. Contextual Relevance

Ensure that the quote you choose is relevant to the topic and adds value to your content. Avoid inserting quotes solely for decorative purposes.


4.2. Integration into Your Writing

Seamlessly integrate quotes into your writing. Introduce them appropriately and follow up with analysis or commentary to connect them to your main points.


4.3. Attribution and Citation

Always attribute quotes to their original authors and provide proper citations according to the required style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).


5. Common Mistakes to Avoid


5.1. Overusing Quotes

Relying too heavily on quotes can overshadow your voice. Use them sparingly to support your arguments, not replace them.


5.2. Lack of Analysis

Presenting a quote without analysis or explanation can leave readers questioning its relevance. Always follow up with your interpretation or discussion.


5.3. Misquoting or Taking Out of Context

Ensure that quotes are accurate and not taken out of context, as this can mislead readers and undermine your credibility.



6. Quotes in Different Contexts


6.1. Academic Writing

In academic writing, quotes are used to support arguments, provide evidence, and engage with existing literature. Proper citation is crucial to avoid plagiarism.


6.2. Journalism

Journalists use quotes to provide firsthand accounts, add authenticity, and present multiple perspectives within a story.


6.3. Literature and Creative Writing

In literature, quotes can be used to convey character voices, themes, and stylistic elements. They enrich narratives and provide depth to storytelling.



7. Punctuation and Formatting


Understanding the correct punctuation and formatting of quotes is essential:


Quotation Marks: Always enclose direct quotes within quotation marks.


Punctuation Placement: In American English, periods and commas are placed inside quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside.


Block Quotes: For longer quotes, format them as block quotes without quotation marks, and indent the entire block.



8. Ethical Considerations


Ethical use of quotes involves accurate representation, proper attribution, and respect for intellectual property. Misuse can lead to plagiarism, which carries serious academic and professional consequences.

9. Tools for Managing Quotes


Utilize tools like citation generators and plagiarism checkers to manage quotes effectively. These tools help ensure proper formatting and originality in your writing.



Conclusion


Quotes are invaluable in enriching content, providing evidence, and conveying complex ideas succinctly. When used appropriately, they enhance the quality and credibility of your writing. Always ensure relevance, proper integration, and ethical usage to maximize their impact.


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