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From Millions Of Men . . . One Man Must Step Forward Who With Apodictic Force Will Form Granite Principles From The Wavering Idea-world Of The Broad Masses And Take Up The Struggle For Their Sole Correctness, Until From The Shifting Waves Of A Fre Thought-world There Will Arise A Brazen Cliff Of Solid Unity In Faith And Will.
-Adolf Hitler
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Adolf Hitler
From Millions Of Men . . . One Man Must Step Forward Who With Apodictic Force Will Form Granite Principles From The Wavering Idea-world Of The Broad Masses And Take Up The Struggle For Their Sole Correctness, Until From The Shifting Waves Of A Fre Thought-world There Will Arise A Brazen Cliff Of Solid Unity In Faith And Will.
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Differentiation Of Treatment Is Not Motivated By The Difference Of Value Of The Two Races, But Of The Fundamental Difference Of Their Respective Natures.
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Humanitarianism Is The Expression Of Stupidity And Cowardice.
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Military
Land
League
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Rise To Power
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Winter
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Thinking
Government
People
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Winning
People
Movement
I Was Europe's Last Chance.
Europe
Lasts
Chance
Blood Sin And Desecration Of The Race Are The Original Sin In This World And The End Of A Humanity Which Surrenders To It.
Race
Blood
Humanity
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People
Leader
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Truly, This Earth Is A Trophy Cup For The Industrious Man. And This Rightly So, In The Service Of Natural Selection. He Who Does Not Possess The Force To Secure His Lebensraum In This World, And, If Necessary, To Enlarge It, Does Not Deserve To Possess The Necessities Of Life. He Must Step Aside And Allow Stronger Peoples To Pass Him By.
Men
Stronger
Doe
We Need Free Men Who Feel And Know That God Is In Themselves
Men
Needs
Feels
When I Was A Worker I Busied Myself With Socialist Or, If You Like, Marxist Literature.
Literature
Marxist
Socialist
The Fact That, With Time, This League [of Nations]-which Was Presumably Designed By Its Founders To Exist For All Eternity-cannot Be Coupled With A Treaty The Short Term Of Which Is Inherent In Its Own Weaknesses And Impracticabilities, Is A Point Which Can Perhaps Be Contested By Today's Interested Parties, But Which Will One Day Be Deemed A Matter Of Course In History.
Party
League
One Day
Give Me An Athlete And I'll Give You An Army.
Athlete
Army
Giving
It Is A Mistake To Make Propaganda Many-sided, Like Scientific Instruction, For Instance... As Soon As You Sacrifice This Slogan And Try To Be Many-sided, The Effect Will Piddle Away, For The Crowd Can Neither Digest Nor Retain The Material Offered.
Mistake
Sacrifice
Media
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
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
All Propaganda Must Be Popular And Its Intellectual Level Must Be Adjusted To The Most Limited Intelligence Among Those It Is Addressed To.
Intellectual
Mein Kampf
Levels
Neutrals And Lukewarms Do Not Make History.
The Stronger Must Dominate And Not Blend With The Weaker, Thus Sacrificing His Own Greatness.
Sacrifice
Greatness
Stronger
The Fox Remains Always A Fox, The Goose Remains A Goose, And The Tiger Will Retain The Character Of A Tiger.
Character
Atheism
Foxes
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
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
I Die With A Joyful Heart In The Knowledge Of Our Infinite Achievements And Of A Contribution Unique In The History That Bears My Name.
Heart
Unique
Names
It Is Not The Neutrals Or The Lukewarm Who Make History.
Lukewarm
Where Napoleon Failed, I Shall Succeed, I Shall Land On The Shores Of Britain.
Land
Succeed
Britain
Hate Is More Lasting Than Dislike.
Hate
Reality
Lasting Love
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.
Stupid
Numbers
People
We Have To Put A Stop To The Idea That It Is A Part Of Everybody's Civil Rights To Say Whatever He Pleases.
Rights
Ideas
Please
If You Wish The Sympathy Of The Broad Masses, You Must Tell Them The Crudest And Most Stupid Things.
Sympathy
Stupid
Wish
It Is The Last Territorial Claim Which I Have To Make In Europe, But It Is A Claim From Which I Will Not Recede And Which, God Willing, I Will Make Good.
War
Europe
World
I Speak In The Name Of The Entire German People When I Assure The World That We All Share The Honest Wish To Eliminate The Enmity That Brings Far More Costs Than Any Possible Benefits. It Would Be A Wonderful Thing For All Of Humanity If Both Peoples Would Renounce Force Against Each Other Forever. The German People Are Ready To Make Such A Pledge.
War
Names
People
As National Socialists We See Our Program In Our Flag. In The Red We See The Social Idea Of The Movement.
Ideas
Flags
Movement
The Western Democracy Of Today Is The Forerunner Of Marxism Which Without It Would Not Be Thinkable. It Provides This World Plague With The Culture In Which Its Germs Can Spread.
Democracy
Culture
World
Indeed, Nearly All Attempts To Exterminate A Doctrine And Its Organizational Expression, By Force Without Spiritual Foundation, Are Doomed To Failure, And Not Seldom End With The Exact Opposite Of The Desired Result.
Spiritual
Expression
Opposites
Tell A Lie Loud Enough And Long Enough And People Will Believe It.
Truth
Freedom
Lying
The Parliamentary Principle Of Vesting Legislative Power In The Decision Of The Majority Rejects The Authority Of The Individual And Puts A Numerical Quota Of Anonymous Heads In Its Place. In Doing So It Contradicts The Aristocratic Principle, Which Is A Fundamental Law Of Nature.
Law
Decision
Majority
The Assertion That It Is The Intention Of The German Reich To Coerce The Austrian State Is Absurd!
War
World
Intention
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
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
In Late Marriage Alone Lies The Compulsion To Retain An Institution Which, Twist And Turn As You Like, Is And Remains A Disgrace To Humanity, An Institution Which Is Damned Ill-suited To A Being Who With His Usual Modesty Likes To Regard Himself As The 'image' Of God.
Religious
Lying
Humanity
Not Until My Fourteenth Or Fifteenth Year Did I Begin To Come Across The Word 'jew,' With Any Frequency, Partly In Connection With Political Discussions.... For The Jew Was Still Characterized For Me By Nothing But His Religion, And Therefore, On Grounds Of Human Tolerance, I Maintained My Rejection Of Religious Attacks In This Case As In Others. Consequently, The Tone, Particularly That Of The Viennese Anti-semitic Press, Seemed To Me Unworthy Of The Cultural Tradition Of A Great Nation.
Religious
Years
Rejection
Why Should This War In The West Be Fought For The Restoration Of Poland? The Poland Of The Versailles Treaty Will Never Rise Again.
War
Restoration
World
If Only One Country, For Whatever Reason, Tolerates A Jewish Family In It, That Family Will Become The Germ Center For Fresh Sedition. If One Little Jewish Boy Survives Without Any Jewish Education, With No Synagogue And No Hebrew School, It [judaism] Is In His Soul. Even If There Had Never Been A Synagogue Or A Jewish School Or An Old Testament, The Jewish Spirit Would Still Exist And Exert Its Influence. It Has Been There From The Beginning And There Is No Jew, Not A Single One, Who Does Not Personify It.
Country
School
Boys
Our Task Is To Harness The God-given Energy Of This German Nation To Stand Firm For The Truth.
Energy
Tasks
Harness
Knowledge Above The Average Can Be Crammed Into The Average Man, But It Remains Dead, And In The Last Analysis Sterile Knowledge. The Result Is A Man Who May Be A Living Dictionary But Nevertheless Falls Down Miserably In All Special Situations And Decisive Moments In Life.
Education
Fall
Science
The Efficiency Of A Truly National Leader Consists Primarily In Preventing The Division Of The Attention Of A People, And Always In Concentrating It On A Single Enemy.
Power
People
Leader
A Victory At Kursk Would Shine Like A Beacon To The World!
War
Shining
Victory
Anyone Who Dares To Lay Hands On The Highest Image Of The Lord Commits Sacrilege Against The Benevolent Creator Of This Miracle And Contributes To The Expulsion From Paradise.
Religious
Hands
Miracle
Struggle Is The Father Of All Things, Virtue Lies In Blood, Leadership Is Primary And Decisive
Father
Military
Lying
We Stand At The End Of The Age Of Reason. A New Era Of The Magical Explanation Of The World Is Rising.
Scary
Age
Rising
This Human World Of Ours Would Be Inconceivable Without The Practical Existence Of A Religious Belief.
Religious
Catholic Religion
Atheism
The Reason Why The Ancient World Was So Pure, Light And Serene Was That It Knew Nothing Of The Two Great Scourges : The Pox And Christianity.
Light
Two
World
Generals Think War Should Be Waged Like The Tourneys Of The Middle Ages. I Have No Use For Knights; I Need Revolutionaries.
War
Thinking
Knights
Peoples Which Bastardize Themselves, Or Let Themselves Be Bastardized, Sin Against The Will Of Eternal Providence.
Mein Kampf
Sin
Providence
I Am Personally Convinced Of The Great Power And Deep Significance Of Christianity, And I Won't Allow Any Other Religion To Be Promoted.
Religion
Atheism
Christianity
For It Was By The Will Of God That Men Were Made Of A Certain Bodily Shape, Were Given Their Natures And Their Faculties. Whoever Destroys His Work Wages War Against God's Creation And God's Will.
War
Men
Atheism
Just As A Man's Denominational Orientation Is The Result Of Upbringing, And Only The Religious Need As Such Slumbers In His Soul, The Political Opinion Of The Masses Represents Nothing But The Final Result Of An Incredibly Tenacious And Thorough Manipulation Of Their Mind And Soul.
Religious
Men
Political Opinions
The Primitive Simplicity Of Their Minds Renders Them A More Easy Prey To A Big Lie Than A Small One.
Lying
Evil
Simplicity
The Whites Have Carried To These (colonial) People The Worst That They Could Carry: The Plagues Of The World: Materialism, Fanaticism, Alcoholism, And Syphilis. Moreover, Since What These People Possessed On Their Own Was Superior To Anything We Could Give Them, They Have Remained Themselves... The Sole Result Of The Activity Of The Colonizers Is: They Have Everywhere Aroused Hatred.
People
Giving
Hatred
The Fact That The Vatican Is Concluding A Treaty With The New Germany Means The Acknowledgement Of The National Socialist State By The Catholic Church. This Treaty Shows The Whole World Clearly And Unequivocally That The Assertion That National Socialism Is Hostile To Religion Is A Lie.
Lying
Mean
Catholic
Surrender Is Forbidden. Sixth Army Will Hold Their Positions To The Last Man And The Last Round And By Their Heroic Endurance Will Make An Unforgettable Contribution Toward The Establishment Of A Defensive Front And The Salvation Of The Western World.
Army
Men
Endurance
While We Destroyed The Centre Party, We Have Not Only Brought Thousands Of Priests Back Into The Church, But To Millions Of Respectable People We Have Restored Their Faith In Their Religion And In Their Priests. The Union Of The Evangelical Church In A Single Church For The Whole Reich, The Concordat With The Catholic Church, These Are But Milestones On The Road Which Leads To The Establishment Of A Useful Relation And A Useful Co Operation Between The Reich And The Two Confessions.
Party
Two
People
I Hold That This Must Be Said, For Treaties Only Make Sense When Concluded By Honor-loving Peoples And Honor-conscious Governments. Germany Wishes To Establish Honest Relations With The Peoples Of Neighboring Countries. We Have Done This In The East, And I Believe That Not Only Berlin But Warsaw As Well Will Rejoice In The Decontamination Of The Atmosphere Brought About Through Our Joint Efforts.
Country
Believe
Government
Our Teachers Were Absolute Tyrants. They Had No Sympathy With Youth; Their One Object Was To Stuff Our Brains And Turn Us Into Erudite Apes Like Themselves. If Any Pupil Showed The Slightest Trace Of Originality, They Persecuted Him Relentlessly, And The Only Model Pupils Whom I Have Ever Got To Know Have All Been Failures In After-life.
Teacher
Tyrants
Brain
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.
Clever
Lying
Rise To Power
The Folkish-minded Man, In Particular, Has The Sacred Duty, Each In His Own Denomination, Of Making People Stop Just Talking Superficially Of God's Will, And Actually Fulfill God's Will, And Not Let God's Word Be Desecrated. For God's Will Gave Men Their Form, Their Essence And Their Abilities. Anyone Who Destroys His Work Is Declaring War On The Lord's Creation, The Divine Will.
Letting Go
Religious
War
Providence Has Ordained That I Should Be The Greatest Liberator Of Humanity. I Am Freeing Man From The Restraints Of An Intelligence That Has Taken Charge, From The Dirty And Degrading Self-mortification Of A False Vision Called Conscience And Morality, And From The Demands Of A Freedom And Independence Which Only A Very Few Can Bear.
Dirty
Taken
Men
Our Party Remains As Firm As This Rock And Will Not Be Divided By Any Force In Germany.
Party
Rocks
Germany
The Great Strength Of The Totalitarian State Is That It Forces Those Who Fear It To Imitate It.
Fear
Political
Mein Kampf
There Is A Road To Freedom. Its Milestones Are Obedience, Endeavour, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, And Love Of The Fatherland.
Honesty
Sacrifice
Order
He Alone, Who Owns The Youth, Gains The Future.
Rise To Power
Individual Happiness
Church Ministry
We Need Not Fear The Judgement Of History. Who, After All, Speaks Today Of The Extermination Of The Armenians?
Evil
Judgement
Needs
The Root Of The Whole Evil Lay, Particularly In Schonerer's Opinion, In The Fact That The Directing Body Of The Catholic Church Was Not In Germany, And That For This Very Reason Alone It Was Hostile To The Interests Of Our Nationality.
Roots
Evil
Catholic
Heaven Will Smile On Us Again.
Heaven
What Luck For Rulers That Men Do Not Think.
Work
School
Stupid People
For The Folk-community Does Not Exist On The Fictitious Value Of Money But On The Results Of Productive Labour, Which Is What Gives Money Its Value.
Money
Giving
Community
The State Must Declare The Child To Be The Most Precious Treasure Of The People. As Long As The Government Is Perceived As Working For The Benefit Of The Children, The People Will Happily Endure Almost Any Curtailment Of Liberty And Almost Any Deprivation.
Children
Government
Long
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.
Mistake
Race
Gun Control
The Purpose Of Propaganda Is Not To Provide Interesting Distraction For Blasé Young Gentlemen, But To Convince... The Masses. But The Masses Are Slow Moving, And They Always Require A Certain Time Before They Are Ready Even To Notice A Thing, And Only After The Simplest Ideas Are Repeated Thousands Of Times Will The Masses Finally Remember Them.
Moving
Media
Ideas
Our National Policies Will Not Be Revoked Or Modified, Even For Scientists. If The Dismissal Of Jewish Scientists Means The Annihilation Of Contemporary German Science, Then We Shall Do Without Science For A Few Years.
Mean
Science
Years
One Should Guard Against Believing The Great Masses To Be More Stupid Than They Actually Are.
Wisdom
Stupid
Believe
I Will Not Wage War Against Women And Children! I Have Instructed My Air Force To Limit Their Attacks To Military Objectives. However, If The Enemy Should Conclude From This That He Might Get Away With Waging War In A Different Manner He Will Receive An Answer That He'll Be Knocked Out Of His Wits!
Children
Military
War
I, For My Part, Acknowledge Another Precept Which Says That Man Must Deal The Final Blow To Those Whose Downfall Is Destined By God.
Blow
Men
Finals
I Ought To Have Seized The Initiative In 1938 Instead Of Allowing Myself To Be Forced Into War In 1939; For War Was, In Any Case, Unavoidable. However, You Can Hardly Blame Me If The British And The French Accepted At Munich Every Demand I Made Of Them! (14th February 1945)
War
Demand
Munich
Lord God, Let Us Never Hesitate Or Play The Coward, Let Us Never Forget The Duty Which We Have Taken Upon Us.... We Are All Proud That Through God's Powerful Aid We Have Become Once More True Germans.
Powerful
Taken
Play
The Broad Masses Of A Population Are More Amenable To The Appeal Of Rhetoric Than To Any Other Force.
Fear
Military
Historical
The Ten Commandments Have Lost Their Validity...conscience Is A Jewish Invention. It Is A Blemish Like Circumcision.
Circumcision
Invention
Lost
Conscience Is A Jewish Invention.
Invention
Conscience
How Many Of My Basic Principles Were Upset By This Change In My Attitude Toward The Christian Social Movement! My Views With Regard To Anti-semitism Thus Succumbed To The Passage Of Time, And This Was My Greatest Transformation Of All.
Christian
Attitude
Views
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
If You Win, You Need Not Have To Explain...if You Lose, You Should Not Be There To Explain!
Truth
Philosophy
Winning
Wipe Out The Entire Defense Potential Remaining To The Soviets.
War
Defense
Wipe
How Fortunate For Leaders That Men Do Not Think (also, What Luck For Rulers That Men Do Not Think).
Men
Thinking
Leader
Political Parties Has Nothing To Do With Religious Problems, As Long As These Are Not Alien To The Nation, Undermining The Morals And Ethics Of The Race; Just As Religion Cannot Be Amalgamated With The Scheming Of Political Parties.
Religious
Party
Race
I Wouldn't Watch Football If It Wasn't For Lord Bendtner
Football
Watches
Lord
Everything On This Earth Can Be Made Into Something Better. Every Defeat May Be Made The Foundation Of A Future Victory. Every Lost War May Be The Cause Of A Later Resurgence. Every Visitation Of Distress Can Give A New Impetus To Human Energy. And Out Of Every Oppression Those Forces Can Develop Which Bring About A New Rebirth.
War
Giving
Victory
Obstacles Do Not Exist To Be Surrendered To, But Only To Be Broken.
Inspirational
Broken
Mein Kampf
Every Year A Thousand Kilometers Of Motor-roads Will Be Opened Until The Greatest Work In The History Of Mankind Is Completed.
Years
Mankind
Thousand
I Shall Not Rest Until Every German Sees That It Is A Shameful Thing To Be A Lawyer.
Law
Lawyer
Shameful
Verily A Man Cannot Serve Two Masters. And I Consider The Foundation Or Destruction Of A Religion Far Greater Than The Foundation Or Destruction Of A State, Let Alone A Party.
Party
Men
Two
The Size Of The Lie Is A Definite Factor In Causing It To Be Believed.
Inspirational
Lying
Size
Think Thousand Times Before Taking A Decision But - After Taking Decison Never Turn Back Even If You Get Thousand Difficulties!!
Inspirational
Thinking
Decision
I Don't Talk For The Sake Of Talking. I Do Become Intoxicated With Sound. When I Open My Mouth, It's To Say Something.
Talking
Sound
Mouths
The German Has Not The Slightest Notion How A People Must Be Misled If The Adherence Of The Masses Is Sought.
Leadership
People
Adherence
The Great Masses Of People Do Not Consist Of Philosophers; Precisely For The Masses, Faith Is Often The Sole Foundation Of A Moral Attitude. ... For The Political Man, The Value Of A Religion Must Be Estimated Less By Its Deficiencies Than By The Virtue Of A Visibly Better Substitute.
Religious
Attitude
Men
By The Skillful And Sustained Use Of Propaganda, One Can Make A People See Even Heaven As Hell Or An Extremely Wretched Life As Paradise.
People
Heaven
Historical
All Propaganda Has To Be Popular And Has To Accommodate Itself To The Comprehension Of The Least Intelligent Of Those Whom It Seeks To Reach.
Lying
Intelligent
Rise To Power
Christianity Could Not Content Itself With Building Up Its Own Altar; It Was Absolutely Forced To Undertake The Destruction Of The Heathen Altars. Only From This Fanatical Intolerance Could Its Apodictic Faith Take Form; This Intolerance Is, In Fact, Its Absolute Presupposition.
Religious
Building Up
Facts
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.

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