Idealism Does Not Represent A Superfluous Expression Of Emotion, But In Truth It Has Been, Is, And Will Be, The Premise For What We Designate As Human Culture...without His Idealistic Attitude All, Even The Most Dazzling Faculties Of The Intellect, Would Remain Mere Intellect Just Like Outward Appearance Without Inner Value, And Never Creative Force....the Purest Idealism Is Unconsciously Equivalent To The Deepest Knowledge.

-Adolf Hitler

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Only The Continuous And Steady Application Of The Methods For Suppressing A Doctrine, Etc., Makes It Possible For A Plan To Succeed.

Doctrine

Succeed

Etc

For A People, As For An Individual, It Is Tragic To Have Ambitions And To Lack Both The Means Essential To Their Fulfillment And Any Hope Of Acquiring Those Means.

Ambition

Mean

People

All Propaganda Must Be Confined To A Few Bare Necessities And Then Must Be Expressed In A Few Stereotyped Formulas . . . Only Constant Repetition Will Finally Succeed In Imprinting An Idea Upon The Memory Of A Crowd.

Memories

Ideas

Crowds

I Have No Further Interest In The Czecho-slovakian State, That Is Guaranteed. We Want No Czechs

War

World

Want

I Believe In Providence And I Believe Providence To Be Just. Therefore I Believe That Providence Always Rewards The Strong, The Industrious, And The Upright.

Strong

Believe

Atheism

May The Time Not Be Far Off When All Other European Nations Will Come To The Realisation That The Primary Necessity Is Putting An End To The Quarrels And Strife Of Centuries And Of Building Up Of A Finer Community Of All Peoples Is: The Recognition Of A Higher Common Duty Arising Out Of Common Rights?

Rights

Building Up

Community

The Art Of Propaganda Lies In Understanding The Emotional Ideas Of The Great Masses And Finding, Through A Psychologically Correct Form, The Way To The Attention And Thence To The Heart Of The Broad Masses.

Art

Lying

Emotional

When An Opponent Declares, "i Will Not Come Over To Your Side," I Calmly Say, "your Child Belongs To Us Already...what Are You? You Will Pass On. Your Descendants, However, Now Stand In The New Camp. In A Short Time They Will Know Nothing Else But This New Community."

Money

Children

Freedom

There Could Be No Issue Between The Church And The State. The Church, As Such, Has Nothing To Do With Political Affairs. On The Other Hand, The State Has Nothing To Do With The Faith Or Inner Organization Of The Church

Military

Hands

Organization

The Jew Almost Never Marries A Christian Woman; It Is The Christian Who Marries A Jewess.

Christian

Christian Women

Jew

What Luck For Rulers That Men Do Not Think.

Work

School

Stupid People

The Readiness To Sacrifice One's Personal Work And, If Necessary, Even One's Life For Others Shows Its Most Highly Developed Form In The Aryan Race. The Greatness Of The Aryan Is Not Based On His Intellectual Powers; But Rather On His Willingness To Devote All His Faculties To The Service Of His Community.

Sacrifice

Greatness

Race

Demoralize The Enemy From Within By Surprise, Terror, Sabotage, Assassination. This Is The War Of The Future.

Military

War

Enemy

Obstacles Do Not Exist To Be Surrendered To, But Only To Be Broken.

Inspirational

Broken

Mein Kampf

For There Is One Thing We Must Never Forget... The Majority Can Never Replace The Man. And No More Than A Hundred Empty Heads Make One Wise Man Will An Heroic Decision Arise From A Hundred Cowards.

Wise

Military

Men

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 Dreed.

People

Needs

Want

He Alone, Who Owns The Youth, Gains The Future.

Rise To Power

Individual Happiness

Church Ministry

We Need Free Men Who Feel And Know That God Is In Themselves

Men

Needs

Feels

Something Therefore Always Remains And Sticks From The Most Imprudent Of Lies, A Fact Which All Bodies And Individuals Concerned In The Art Of Lying In This World Know Only Too Well, And Therefore They Stop At Nothing To Achieve This End.

Art

Lying

World

We Are A People Of Different Faiths, But We Are One. Which Faith Conquers The Other Is Not The Question; Rather, The Question Is Whether Christianity Stands Or Falls.... We Tolerate No One In Our Ranks Who Attacks The Ideas Of Christianity... In Fact Our Movement Is Christian. We Are Filled With A Desire For Catholics And Protestants To Discover One Another In The Deep Distress Of Our Own People.

Christian

Fall

Ideas

I Am Convinced That 1941 Will Be The Crucial Year Of A Great New Order In Europe. The World Shall Open Up For Everyone. Privileges For Individuals, The Tyranny Of Certain Nations And Their Financial Rulers Shall Fall. And Last Of All This Year Will Help To Provide The Foundations Of A Real Understanding Among Peoples, And With It The Certainty Of Conciliation Among Nations. . . . Those Nations Who Are Still Opposed To Us Will Some Day Recognize The Greater Enemy Within. Then They Will Join Us In A Combined Front, A Front Against Jewish Exploitation And Racial Degeneration.

Real

Fall

Order

The More The Linguistic Babel Corroded And Disorganized Parliament, The Closer Drew The Inevitable Hour Of The Disintegration Of This Babylonian Empire, And With It The Hour Of Freedom For My German-austrian People.

People

Empires

Hours

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

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

If Providence Had Not Guided Us I Would Often Never Have Found These Dizzy Paths. Thus, It Is That We National Socialists Have In The Depths Of Our Hearts Our Faith. No Man Can Fashion World History Or The History Of Peoples Unless Upon His Purpose And His Powers There Rests The Blessing Of This Providence.

Fashion

Heart

Men

For The Sake Of Historical Truth I Must Verify That Only The Greeks, Of All The Adversaries Who Confronted Us, Fought With Bold Courage And Highest Disregard Of Death.

Greek

Historical

Sake

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

Give Me An Athlete And I'll Give You An Army.

Athlete

Army

Giving

Today Christians... Stand At The Head Of Germany... We Want To Fill Our Culture Again With The Christian Spirit.

Christian

Faith Religion

Germany

I Myself And My Wife - In Order To Escape The Disgrace Of Deposition Or Capitulation - Choose Death. It Is Our Wish To Be Burnt Immediately On The Spot Where I Have Carried Out The Greatest Part Of My Daily Work In The Course Of A Twelve Years' Service To My People.

Suicidal

Order

Years

I Had Excellent Opportunity To Intoxicate Myself With The Solemn Splendor Of The Brilliant Church Festivals. As Was Only Natural, The Abbot Seemed To Me, As The Village Priest Had Once Seemed To My Father, The Highest And Most Desirable Ideal.

Religious

Father

Opportunity

Propaganda Tries To Force A Doctrine On The Whole People; The [party] Organization Embraces Within Its Scope Only Those Who Do Not Threaten On Psychological Grounds To Become A Brake On The Further Dissemination Of Ideas.

Party

Organization

Ideas

[w]e Will Do What We Like With The Bourgeoisie. ... We Give The Orders; They Do What They Are Told. Any Resistance Will Be Broken Ruthlessly.

Order

Broken

Giving

The German People Are Not A Warlike Nation. It Is A Soldierly One, Which Means It Does Not Want A War, But Does Not Fear It. It Loves Peace But Also Loves Its Honor And Freedom

Military

War

Mean

All Work Which Is Necessary Ennobles Him Who Performs It. Only One Thing Is Shameful - To Contribute Nothing To The Community.

Community

Shameful

One Thing

The Beginning Of Every War Is Like Opening The Door Into A Dark Room. One Never Knows What Is Hidden In The Darkness.

War

Dark

Doors

In A War The Last Thing The English Know Is How To Practice Fair Play.

War

Practice

Play

Die Breite Masse Einesvolkes?einer GroÞen Lu« Ge Leichter Zum Opfer F A« Llt Als Einer Kleinen. The Broad Mass Of A Nation?will More Easily Fall Victim To A Big Lie Than To A Small One.

Lying

Fall

Als

Today I Will Once More Be A Prophet. If The International Jewish Financiers, Inside And Outside Europe, Succeed In Plunging The Nations Once More Into A World War, Then The Result Will Not Be The Bolshevisation Of The Earth, And Thus The Victory Of Jewry, But The Annihilation Of The Jewish Race In Europe!

War

Race

Europe

It Is Necessary That I Should Die For My People; But My Spirit Will Rise From The Grave And The Whole World Will Know That I Was Right.

Nearly All Bolshevist Agitators In Germany And Elsewhere Were Jews.

Germany

Jew

Elsewhere

To Fight, We Must Have Oil For Our Machine.

Fighting

Oil

Machines

All Upright Germans Will Be National Socialists, But Only The Best National Socialists Will Be Party Members!

Party

Members

Nations

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

When Understanding Of The Universe Has Become Widespread, When The Majority Of Men Know That The Stars Are Not Sources Of Light But Worlds, Perhaps Inhabited Worlds Like Ours, Then The Christian Doctrine Will Be Convicted Of Absurdity.

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Stars

Knowledge

When I Recall My Teachers At School, I Realise That Half Of Them Were Abnormal. . . . We Pupils Of Old Austria Were Brought Up To Respect Old People And Women. But On Our Professors We Had No Mercy; They Were Our Natural Enemies. The Majority Of Them Were Somewhat Mentally Deranged, And Quite A Few Ended Their Days As Honest-to-god Lunatics! . . . I Was In Particular Bad Odor With The Teachers. I Showed Not The Slightest Aptitude For Foreign Languages - Though I Might Have, Had Not The Teacher Been A Congenital Idiot. I Could Not Bear The Sight Of Him.

Teacher

School

Sight

I Do Not Know What Horrified Me Most [during The Depression]: The Economic Misery Of My Companions [or] Their Moral And Ethical Coarseness.

Moral

Misery

Ethical

The Purest Idealism Is Unconsciously Equivalent To The Deepest Knowledge.

Outward Appearance

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The Earth Continues To Go Round, Whether It's The Man Who Kills The Tiger Or The Tiger Who Eats The Man. The Stronger Asserts His Will, It's The Law Of Nature. The World Doesn't Change; Its Laws Are Eternal.

Men

Law

Stronger

Faith Is Harder To Shake Than Knowledge, Love Succumbs Less To Change Than Respect, Hate Is More Enduring Than Aversion, And The Impetus To The Mightiest Upheavals On This Earth Has At All Times Consisted Less In A Scientific Knowledge Dominating The Masses Than In A Fanaticism Which Inspired Them And Sometimes In A Hysteria Which Drove Them Forward.

Faith

Respect

Religious

Germany Will Never Break The Peace Of Its Own Accord.

Germany

Break

Accord

The Application Of Force Alone, Without Support Based On A Spiritual Concept, Can Never Bring About The Destruction Of An Idea Or Arrest The Propagation Of It, Unless One Is Ready And Able To Ruthlessly To Exterminate The Last Upholders Of That Idea Even To A Man, And Also Wipe Out Any Tradition Which It May Tend To Leave Behind.

Spiritual

Men

Ideas

This Human World Of Ours Would Be Inconceivable Without The Practical Existence Of A Religious Belief.

Religious

Catholic Religion

Atheism

If Freedom Is Short Of Weapons, We Must Compensate With Willpower.

Mein Kampf

Weapons

Willpower

I Shall Give A Propagandist Reason For Starting The War, No Matter Whether It Is Plausible Or Not. The Victor Will Not Be Asked Afterwards Whether He Told The Truth Or Not. When Starting And Waging War It Is Not Right That Matters, But Victory.

War

Giving

Victory

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

The Broad Mass Of A Nation Will More Easily Fall Victim To A Big Lie Than A Small One. The Greater The Lie, The Greater Chance That It Will Be Believed. All Epoch-making Events Have Been Produced Not By The Written, But The Spoken Word.

Lying

Fall

Events

Life Does Not Forgive Weakness.

Forgiving

Weakness

Doe

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

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

Struggle Is The Father Of All Things, Virtue Lies In Blood, Leadership Is Primary And Decisive

Father

Military

Lying

A Single Blow Must Destroy The Enemy... Without Regard Of Losses... A Gigantic All-destroying Blow.

Military

Loss

Blow

I Say That They Can Be Solved; There Is No Problem That Cannot Be, But Faith Is Necessary. Think Of The Faith I Had To Have Eighteen Years Ago, A Single Man On A Lonely Path. Yet I Have Come To Leadership Of The German People... Life Is Hard For Many, But It Is Hardest If You Are Unhappy And Have No Faith. Have Faith. Nothing Can Make Me Change My Own Belief.

Lonely

Men

Thinking

For The Political Leader The Religious Doctrines And Institutions Of His People Must Always Remain Inviolable; Or Else Has No Right To Be In Politics, But Should Become A Reformer, If He Has What It Takes!

Religious

People

Leader

In Vowing Ourselves To One Another, We Are Entitled To Stand Before The Almighty And Ask Him For His Grace And His Blessing.

Blessing

Grace

Almighty

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

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

Himmler Wants To Send An Expedition To Tibet To Look For Ancient Manuscripts On The Aryans. The Man Is Like A Little Schoolgirl. What Culture Is There In An Old Jug, I Ask You?

Men

Jugs

Culture

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

The National Government Sees In Both Christian Denominations The Most Important Factor For The Maintenance Of Our Society.

Christian

Government

Religion

When Barbarossa Commences, The World Will Hold Its Breath And Make No Comment.

World

Comment

Breaths

We Stand For The Maintenance Of Private Property... We Shall Protect Free Enterprise As The Most Expedient, Or Rather The Sole Possible Economic Order.

Order

Tyrants

Maintenance

The Youthful Brain Should In General Not Be Burdened With Things Ninety-five Percent Of Which It Cannot Use And Hence Forgets Again... In Many Cases, The Material To Be Learned In The Various Subjects Is So Swollen That Only A Fraction Of It Remains In The Head Of The Individual Pupil, And Only A Fraction Of This Abundance Can Find Application, While On The Other Hand It Is Not Adequate For The Man Working And Earning His Living In A Definite Field.

Education

Science

Men

It Is Always More Difficult To Fight Successfully Against Faith Than Against Knowledge.

Military

Fighting

Individual Happiness

The Greater The Crime Perpetrated By The Leadership, The Less Likely It Is That The People Will Ever Believe Their Leaders To Be Capable Of Perpetrating Such An Event.

Believe

People

Leader

It Must Never Be Forgotten That Nothing That Is Really Great In This World Has Ever Been Achieved By Coalitions, But That It Has Always Been The Success Of A Single Victor. Coalition Successes Bear By The Very Nature Of Their Origin The Germ Of Future Crumbling, In Fact Of The Loss Of What Has Already Been Achieved. Great, Truly World-shaking Revolutions Of A Spiritual Nature Are Not Even Conceivable And Realizable Except As The Titanic Struggles Of Individual Formations, Never As Enterprises Of Coalitions.

Spiritual

Struggle

Loss

Genius Is A Will-o'-the-wisp If It Lacks A Solid Foundation Of Perseverence And Fanatical Tenacity. This Is The Most Important Thing In All Of Human Life.

Important

Foundation

Genius

The Universalists, The Idealists, The Utopians All Aim Too High. They Give Promises Of An Unattainable Paradise, And By Doing So They Deceive Mankind. Whatever Label They Wear, Whether They Call Themselves Christians, Communists, Humanitarians, Whether They Are Merely Sincere But Stupid Or Wire-pullers And Cynics, They Are All Makers Of Slaves. I Myself Have Always Kept My Eye Fixed On A Paradise Which, In The Nature Of Things, Lies Well Within Our Reach. I Mean An Improvement In The Lot Of The German People. (21st February 1945)

Christian

Lying

Stupid

Politics Is History In The Making.

Nations

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

The Size Of The Lie Is A Definite Factor In Causing It To Be Believed.

Inspirational

Lying

Size

If I Can Send The Flower Of The German Nation Into The Hell Of War Without The Smallest Pity For The Shedding Of Precious German Blood, Then Surely I Have The Right To Remove Millions Of An Inferior Race That Breeds Like Vermin.

Death

Crazy

War

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

It Is Not The State That Orders Us; But It Is We Who Order The State!

Order

States

Nations

How Fortunate For Leaders That Men Do Not Think (also, What Luck For Rulers That Men Do Not Think).

Men

Thinking

Leader

State Authority Can Never Be An End In Itself; For, If That Were So, Any Kind Of Tyranny Would Be Inviolable And Sacred. If A Government Uses The Instruments Of Power In Its Hands For The Purpose Of Leading A People To Ruin, Then Rebellion Is Not Only The Right But Also The Duty Of Every Individual Citizen.

Hands

Government

People

...a Man Does Not Die For Business, But For Ideals.

Men

Doe

Ideals

I Saw My Enemies In Munich, And They Are Worms.

War

Enemy

World

If Artists Do See Fields Blue They Are Deranged, And Should Go To An Asylum. If They Only Pretend To See Them Blue, They Are Criminals And Should Go To Prison.

Artist

Blue

Color

Only Constant Repetition Will Finally Succeed In Imprinting An Idea On The Memory Of The Crowd.

Memories

Ideas

Crowds

All Those Who Are Not Racially Pure Are Mere Chaff.

Mere

Pure

Never In This World Can The Jew Become Master Of Any People Except A Bastardized People.

People

World

Masters

Also Noteworthy Is The Increasingly Violent Struggle Against The Dogmatic Foundations Of The Various Churches Without Which In This Human World The Practical Existence Of A Religious Faith Is Not Conceivable.

Religious

Struggle

Church

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

Under The Guidance Of The Reich, Europe Would Speedily Have Become Unified. Once The Jewish Poison Had Been Eradicated, Unification Would Have Been An Easy Matter. France And Italy, Each Defeated In Turn At An Interval Of A Few Months By The Two Germanic Powers, Would Have Been Well Out Of It. Both Would Have Had To Renounce Their Inappropriate Aspirations To Greatness. At The Same Time They Would Have Had To Renounce Their Pretensions In North Africa And The Near East; And That Would Have Allowed Europe To Pursue A Bold Policy Of Friendship Towards Islam.

Greatness

Europe

Two

Society's Needs Come Before The Individuals Needs

Needs

Individual

Tyranny

The Dogma Of Christianity Gets Worn Away Before The Advances Of Science. Religion Will Have To Make More And More Concessions. Gradually The Myths Crumble.

Dogma

Christianity

Worn

All Great Movements Are Popular Movements. They Are The Volcanic Eruptions Of Human Passions And Emotions, Stirred Into Activity By The Ruthless Goddess Of Distress Or By The Torch Of The Spoken Word Cast Into The Midst Of The People.

Passion

People

Torches

Our Enemies Must Not Deceive Themselves-in The 2,000 Years Of German History Known To Us, Our People Have Never Been More United Than Today. The Lord Of The Universe Has Treated Us So Well In The Past Years That We Bow In Gratitude To A Providence Which Has Allowed Us To Be Members Of Such A Great Nation. We Thank Him That We Also Can Be Entered With Honor Into The Ever-lasting Book Of German History!

Gratitude

Book

Past

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

A Sharp Difference Should Exist Between General Education And Specialized Knowledge. As Particularly Today The Latter Threatens More And More To Sink Into The Service Of Pure Mammon, General Education, At Least In Its More Ideal Attitude, Must Be Retained As A Counterweight.

Attitude

Differences

Today

Christianity Is The Worst Of The Regressions That Mankind Can Ever Have Undergone, And It's The Jew Who, Thanks To This Diabolic Invention, Has Thrown Him Back Fifteen Centuries. The Only Thing That Would Be Still Worse Would Be Victory For The Jew Through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism Triumphed, Mankind Would Lose The Gift Of Laughter And Joy. It Would Become Merely A Shapeless Mass, Doomed To Grayness And Despair.

Laughter

Joy

Victory

German Economic Salvation Has Been Brought About Solely Through The Efforts Of The German People And The Experience They Have Gained. Countries Abroad Have Contributed Nothing To This.

Country

People

Effort

The Best Characterization Is Provided By The Product Of This Religious Education, The Jew Himself. His Life Is Only Of This World, And His Spirit Is Inwardly As Alien To True Christianity As His Nature Two Thousand Years Previous Was To The Great Founder Of The New Doctrine.

Religious

Years

Two

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

I Have Not Come Into This World To Make Men Better, But To Make Use Of Their Weaknesses.

Men

Weakness

Use

It [the Sudetenland] Is The Last Territorial Claim That I Have To Make In Europe.

Europe

Lasts

Claims

The Parliamentary Principle Of Decision By Majorities Only Appears During Quite Short Periods Of History, And Those Are Always Periods Of Decadence In Nations And States.

Decision

Majority

Principles

The World Has No Reason For Fighting In Our Defense, And As A Matter Of Principle God Does Not Make Cowardly Nations Free.

Fighting

Principles

Doe

The World Is Undoubtedly Going Through Great Changes. The Only Question Is Whether The Outcome Will Be The Good Of Aryan Humanity Or Profits For The Jew. The Task Of The National State Will, Therefore, Be To Preserve The Race And Fit It To Meet The Final And Great Decisions On This Globe By Suitable Education Of Its Youth.

Race

Decision

Humanity

I'm Sure That Nero Didn't Set Fire To Rome. It Was The Christian-bolsheviks Who Did That, Just As The Commune Set Fire To Paris In 1871 And The Communists Set Fire To The Reichstag In 1932.

Christian

Fire

Rome

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

The Jew Has Always Been A People With Definite Racial Characteristics And Never A Religion.

People

Mein Kampf

Characteristics

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

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.

Religious

Art

Ideas

Reading Is Not An End To Itself, But A Means To An End.

Reading

Mean

Mein Kampf

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

Our Strategy Is To Destroy The Enemy From Within, To Conquer Him Through Himself.

Military

Enemy

Dictator

...we Understand Only The Individual's Capacity To Make Sacrifices For The Community, For His Fellow Men.

Sacrifice

Men

Community

I Can Not Be Mistaken - What I Say And Do Is Historical.i Follow My Life With The Precision And Security Of A Sleep Walker

Sleep

Historical

Precision

Our Task Is To Harness The God-given Energy Of This German Nation To Stand Firm For The Truth.

Energy

Tasks

Harness

I Know It Is Unpopular. I Know The Timing Is Unpopular. I Know The Whole Thing Is Unpopular. But I Believe It Is The Right Thing.

Believe

Timing

Whole

It Is Thus Necessary That The Individual Should Finally Come To Realize That His Own Ego Is Of No Importance In Comparison With The Existence Of The Nation, That The Position Of The Individual Is Conditioned Solely By The Interests Of The Nation As A Whole.

History

Ego

Nazism

Universal Education Is The Most Corroding And Disintegrating Poison That Liberalism Has Ever Invented For Its Own Destruction.

Education

School

Rise To Power

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

What We Suffer From Today Is An Excess Of Education.

Suffering

Excess

Today

Consequently, The Tone, Particularly That Of The Viennese Anti-semitic Press, Seemed To Me Unworthy Of The Cultural Tradition Of A Great Nation.

Tone

Mein Kampf

Tradition

War Is Life War Is The Origin Of All Things.

War

All Things

I Am Beginning With The Young. We Older Ones Are Used Up. Yes, We Are Old Already. We Are Rotten To The Marrow. We Have No Unrestrained Instincts Left. We Are Cowardly And Sentimental. We Are Bearing The Burden Of A Humiliating Past, And Have In Our Blood The Dull Recollection Of Serfdom And Servility. But My Magnificent Youngsters! Are There Finer Ones Anywhere In The World? Look At These Young Men And Boys! What Material! With Them, I Can Make A New World.

Boys

Past

Men

For We Love Liberty Just As We Love Peace.

Liberty

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

The Result Of The Revolution In Germany Has Been To Establish A Democracy In The Best Sense Of The Word. We Are Steering Towards An Order Of Things Guaranteeing A Process Of A Natural And Reasonable Selection In The Domain Of Political Leadership, Thanks To Which That Leadership Will Be Entrusted To The Most Competent, Irrespective Of Their Descent, Name Or Fortune. The Memorable Words Of The Great Corsican That Every Soldier Carries A Field Marshal's Baton In His Knapsack, Will Find Its Political Complement In Germany.

Memorable

Order

Names

More Than Once I Was Tormented By The Thought That If Providence Had Put Me In The Place Of The Incapable Of Criminal Incompetents Or Scoundrels In Our Propaganda Service, Our Battle With Destiny Would Have Taken A Different Turn.

Taken

Destiny

Battle

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

Conscience Is A Jewish Invention.

Invention

Conscience

The Seed Has Been Sown That Will Grow One Day . . . To The Glorious Rebirth Of The National Socialist Movement Of A Truly United Nation.

One Day

Movement

Rebirth

Even Today I Am Not Ashamed To Say That, Overpowered By Stormy Enthusiasm, I Fell Down On My Knees And Thanked Heaven From An Overflowing Heart For Granting Me The Good Fortune Of Being Permitted To Live At This Time.

Religious

Heart

Heaven

Just As The World Cannot Live On Wars, So People Cannot On Revolutions

Military

War

People

There Is Only One Right In The World And That Right Is One's Own Strength.

World

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

Today Christians ... Stand At The Head Of [this Country]... I Pledge That I Never Will Tie Myself To Parties Who Want To Destroy Christianity .. We Want To Fill Our Culture Again With The Christian Spirit ... We Want To Burn Out All The Recent Immoral Developments In Literature, In The Theater, And In The Press - In Short, We Want To Burn Out The Poison Of Immorality Which Has Entered Into Our Whole Life And Culture As A Result Of Liberal Excess During The Past ... (few) Years.

Christian

Country

Religious

Even A Superficial Glance Is Sufficient To Show That All The Innumerable Forms In Which The Life-urge Of Nature Manifests Itself Are Subject To A Fundamental Law - One May Call It An Iron Law Of Nature - Which Compels The Various Species To Keep Within The Definite Limits Of Their Own Life-forms When Propagating And Multiplying Their Kind.

Law

Iron

Atheism

Churchill Is The Very Type Of A Corrupt Journalist. There Is Not A Worse Prostitute In Politics. He Himself Has Written That It'sunimaginable What Can Be Done In War With The Help Of Lies. He's An Utterly Amoral Repulsive Creature. I'm Convinced That He Has His Place Of Refuge Ready Beyond The Atlantic. He Obviously Won't Seek Sanctuary In Canada. In Canada He'd Be Beaten Up. He'll Go To His Friends The Yankees. As Soon As This Damnable Winter Is Over, We'll Remedy All That.

War

Lying

Winter

It Is A Tragedy Of The Germanic World That Jesus Was Judaised, Distorted, Falsified; And An Alien Asiatic Spirit Was Forced Upon Us. That Is A Crime We Must Repair.

Jesus

Tragedy

World

I Wish And Will Continue To Wish, That The German People Should Learn That By Reason Of Practical Examples Afforded By Their Ability And Work, They Are Not A Second-rate Or Inferior People In Comparison With Others. On The Contrary They Are Their Equals According To All True Standards Of Values And Therefore Entitled To Equal Rights In All Respects.

Rights

People

Wish

I Am Sure That The Japanese, The Chinese And The Peoples Of Islam Will Always Be Closer To Us Than, For Example, France, In Spite Of The Fact That We Are Related By Blood (...)

Blood

Chinese

Islam

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

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

Never Forget That The Most Sacred Right On This Earth Is Mans Right To Have The Earth To Till With His Own Hands, The Most Sacred Sacrifice The Blood That A Man Sheds For This Earth.

Military

Sacrifice

Men

The Art Of Leadership . . . Consists In Consolidating The Attention Of The People Against A Single Adversary And Taking Care That Nothing Will Split Up That Attention. . . . The Leader Of Genius Must Have The Ability To Make Different Opponents Appear As If They Belong To One Category.

Art

People

Leader

A Highly Intelligent Man Should Take A Primitive Woman. Imagine If On Top Of Everything Else, I Had A Woman Who Interfered With My Work.

Intelligent

Men

Imagine

All In All, This Whole Period Of Winter 1919-20 Was A Single Struggle To Strengthen Confidence In The Victorious Might Of The Young Movement And Raise It To That Fanaticism Of Faith Which Can Move Mountains.

Religious

Struggle

Moving

You Only Have To Kick In The Door And The Whole Rotten Structure Will Come Crashing Down.

War

Doors

Rotten

I Believe That This Was God's Will - To Send A Boy Into The Reich, To Let Him Become Its Leader, In Order To Bring His Home Country Into The Reich. Otherwise One Must Doubt Providence.

Country

Believe

Home

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

More People Died As A Result Of The Tiny Abortive Easter Uprising Against British Rule In Ireland (1916) Than Died As A Result Of Political Violence In Germany During The Entire National Socialist Revolution.

Easter

Uprising

People

Pressure Or Violence Will Ever Move Us To Relinquish Our Honor Or Our Equality Of Rights.

Moving

Rights

Honor

The Greatness Of Christianity Did Not Lie In Attempted Negotiations For Compromise With Any Similar Philosophical Opinions In The Ancient World, But In Its Inexorable Fanaticism In Preaching And Fighting For Its Own Doctrine.

Religious

Lying

Philosophical

God Grant That This Is The Work Of The Communists. You Are Witnessing The Beginning Of A Great New Epoch In German History. This Fire Is The Beginning.

War

Fire

German History

All Advertising, Whether It Lies In The Field Of Business Or Of Politics, Will Carry Success By Continuity And Regular Uniformity Of Application.

Trust

Betrayal

Lying

If You Dont Like A Rule... Just Follow It.. Reach On The Top.. And Change The Rule

Ifs

Nudity Is Undignified And An Error Of Taste

Errors

Taste

Nudity

Was There Any Form Of Filth Or Crime Without At Least One Jew Involved In It? If You Cut Into Such A Sore, You Find, Like A Maggot In A Rotting Body, Often Dazzled By The Sudden Light, A Jew.

Cutting

Light

Holocaust

[this Is The] Very First Condition Which Has To Be Fulfilled In Every Kind Of Propaganda: A Systematically One-sided Attitude Towards Every Problem That Has To Be Dealt With.

Attitude

Media

Firsts

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

Columbus's Eggs Lie Around By The Hundreds Of Thousands, But Columbuses Are Met With Less Frequency.

Lying

Eggs

Individuality

If We Pursue This Way, If We Are Decent, Industrious, And Honest, If We So Loyally And Truly Fulfill Our Duty, Then It Is My Conviction That In The Future As In The Past The Lord God Will Always Help Us. In The Long Run He Never Leaves Decent Folk In The Lurch. Often He May Test Them, He May Send Trials Upon Them, But In The Long Run He Always Lets His Sun Shine Upon Them Once More And At The End He Gives Them His Blessing.

Running

Past

Blessing

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

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

When There Is Change, It Must Not Alter The Content Of What Propaganda Is Driving At, But In The End Must Always Say The Same Thing. For Instance, A Slogan Must Be Presented From Different Angles, But The End Of All Remarks Must Always And Immutably Be The Slogan Itself. Only In This Way Can The Propaganda Have A Unified And Complete Effect.

Media

Different

Way

Of Course, The Latter Made No Secret Of His Attitude Toward The Jewish People, And When Necessary He Even Took The Whip To Drive From The Temple Of The Lord This Adversary Of All Humanity, Who Then As Always Saw In Religion Nothing But An Instrument For His Business Existence. In Return, Christ Was Nailed To The Cross, While Our Present-day Party Christians Debase Themselves To Begging For Jewish Votes At Elections And Later Try To Arrange Political Swindles With Atheistic Jewish Parties- And This Against Their Own Nation.

Christian

Attitude

Party

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

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

If Nature Does Not Wish That Weaker Individuals Should Mate With The Stronger, She Wishes Even Less That A Superior Race Should Intermingle With An Inferior One; Because In Such A Case All Her Efforts, Throughout Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years, To Establish An Evolutionary Higher Stage Of Being, May Thus Be Rendered Futile.

Race

Years

Effort

Then We'll Work A Hundred Years Without Physics And Chemistry.

Hard Work

Science

Years

God Helps Only Those Who Are Prepared And Determined To Help Themselves.

Helping

Determined

God Help

Wipe Out The Entire Defense Potential Remaining To The Soviets.

War

Defense

Wipe

You Will Never Learn What I Am Thinking. And Those Who Boast Most Loudly That They Know My Thought, To Such People I Lie Even More.

Lying

Thinking

People

When I Go Out In The Morning And See These Men Standing In Their Queues And Look Into Their Pinched Faces, Then I Believe I Would Be No Christian, But A Very Devil, If I Felt No Pity For Them, If I Did Not, As Did Our Lord Two Thousand Years Ago, Turn Against Those By Whom Today This Poor People Are Plundered And Exposed.

Christian

Religious

Morning

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

Humanitarianism Is The Expression Of Stupidity And Cowardice.

Stupid

Expression

Humanitarian

The Primitive Simplicity Of Their Minds Renders Them A More Easy Prey To A Big Lie Than A Small One.

Lying

Evil

Simplicity

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

Imagine Me Going Around With A Pot Belly. It Would Mean Political Ruin.

Mean

Political

Ruins

Strength Lies Not In Defence But In Attack

Lying

Defence

Besides, There Is More That Binds Us To Bolshevism Than Separates Us From It. There Is, Above All, Genuine, Revolutionary Feeling, Which Is Alive Everywhere In Russia Except Where There Are Jewish Marxists. I Have Always Made Allowance For This Circumstance, And Given Orders That Former Communists Are To Be Admitted To The Party At Once. The Petit Bourgeois Social-democrat And The Trade-union Boss Will Never Make A National Socialist, But The Communist Always Will.

Party

Order

Russia

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 Party, As Such, Stands For Positive Christianity, But Does Not Bind Itself In The Matter Of Creed To Any Particular Confession.

Party

Religion

Doe

The First Foundation For The Creation Of Authority Is Always Provided By Popularity.

Foundation

Firsts

Instructors

If We Had These Rockets In 1939, We Should Never Have Had This War.

War

Air Power

Rockets

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 More Modest Its Intellectual Ballast, The More Exclusively It Takes Into Consideration The Emotions Of The Masses, The More Effective [propaganda] Will Be.

Media

Intellectual

Mein Kampf

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

Where Napoleon Failed, I Shall Succeed, I Shall Land On The Shores Of Britain.

Land

Succeed

Britain

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

The Holocaust Is The Solution To The Jews Final Question

Holocaust

Finals

Jew

Our Object Must Be To Bring Our Territory Into Harmony With The Numbers Of Our Population.

Numbers

Population

Territory

By Helping To Raise Man Above The Level Of Bestial Vegetation, Faith Contributes In Reality To The Securing And Safeguarding Of His Existence. Take Away From Present-day Mankind Its Education-based, Religious-dogmatic Principles- Or, Practically Speaking, Ethical-moral Principles- By Abolishing This Religious Education, But Without Replacing It By An Equivalent, And The Result Will Be A Grave Shock To The Foundations Of Their Existence.

Religious

Reality

Men

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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