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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.
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It Is A Mistake

Adolf Hitler
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.
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The Fact That The Catholic Church Has Come To An Agreement With Fascist Italy ... Proves Beyond Doubt That The Fascist World Of Ideas Is Closer To Christianity Than Those Of Jewish Liberalism Or Even Atheistic Marxism.
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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.
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I Began To Study Again, And Now For The First Time Really Achieved An Understanding Of The Content Of The Jew Karl Marx's Life Effort. Only Now Did His Capital Become Really Intelligible To Me, And Also The Struggle Of The Social Democracy Against The National Economy, Which Aims Only To Prepare The Ground For The Domination Of Truly International Finance And Stock Exchange Capital.
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Why Nationalize Industry When You Can Nationalize The People?
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The Man Who Contemplates The Universe With His Eyes Wide Open Is The Man With The Greatest Amount Of Natural Piety; Not In The Religious Sense, But In The Sense Of An Intimate Harmony With Things.
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Eye
Men
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Honor
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.
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Uprising
People
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Today In May 1938, The World Around Us Suffers From The Anxiety Which The Unemployment Of Millions Brings With It. In Germany We Begin To Be Anxious Because We Have Not Enough Workmen.
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Suffering
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I Was Not In Agreement With The Sharp Anti-semitic Tone, But From Time To Time I Read Arguments Which Gave Me Some Food For Thought. At All Events, These Occasions Slowly Made Me Acquainted With The Man And The Movement, Which In Those Days Guided Vienna's Destinies: Dr. Karl Lueger And The Christian Social Party.
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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.
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Blessing
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Light
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Precision
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Creative
Individuality
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Race
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Religious
Morning
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Fall
Events
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Humanity
Tasks
Earth
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World
Want
The Sin Against Blood And Race Is The Hereditary Sin In This World And It Brings Disaster On Every Nation That Commits It.
Race
Blood
World
The Art Of Reading And Studying Consists In Remembering The Essentials And Forgetting What Is Not Essential.
Art
Reading
Essentials
I Begin With The Young. We Older Ones Are Used Up But My Magnificent Youngsters! Are There Finer Ones Anywhere In The World? Look At All These Men And Boys! What Material! With You And I, We Can Make A New World.
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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?
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People
Giving
Life Is Like A Game, There Could Be Many Players. If You Don't Play With Them, They'll Play With You.
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Games
Life Is Like
But It Would Be Absolutely Mistaken To Regard A Wealth Of Theoretical Knowledge As Characteristic Proof For The Qualities And Abilities Of A Leader.
Education
Science
Leader
The American President Increasingly Used His Influence To Create Conflicts, Intensify Existing Conflicts, And, Above All, To Keep Conflicts From Being Resolved Peacefully. For Years This Man Looked For A Dispute Anywhere In The World, But Preferably In Europe, That He Could Use To Create Political Entanglements With American Economic Obligations To One Of The Contending Sides, Which Would Then Steadily Involve America In The Conflict And Thus Divert Attention From His Own Confused Domestic Economic Policies.
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Men
Years
It [christian Social Party] Recognized The Value Of Large-scale Propaganda And Was A Virtuoso In Influencing The Psychological Instincts Of The Broad Masses Of Its Adherents.
Christian
Religious
Party
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
Strength Lies Not In Defence But In Attack
Lying
Defence
Terrorism Is The Best Political Weapon For Nothing Drives People Harder Than A Fear Of Sudden Death.
People
History
Political
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Religious
War
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
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
Be Proud Of Your People When You Don't Have To Be Ashamed Of Any It's Social Class
Class
People
Proud
The Broad Masses Of A Population Are More Amenable To The Appeal Of Rhetoric Than To Any Other Force.
Fear
Military
Historical
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
Never In These Long Years Have We Offered Any Other Prayer But This: Lord, Grant To Our People Peace At Home, And Grant And Preserve To Them Peace From The Foreign Foe!
Prayer
Home
Years
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Media
Ideas
The Great Masses Of People Do Not Consist Of Philosophers; Precisely For The Masses, Faith Is Often The Sole Foundation Of A Moral Attitude. The Various Substitutes Have Not Proved So Successful From The Standpoint Of Results That They Could Be Regarded As A Useful Replacement For Previous Religious Creeds. But If Religious Doctrine And Faith Are Really To Embrace The Broad Masses, The Unconditional Authority Of The Content Of This Faith Is The Foundation Of All Efficacy.
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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
Great Nations Do Not Succumb Through Lost Wars, But Rather Through Racial Decay And The Destruction Of Their Internal Order.
War
Order
Decay
The [national Socialist] Party...is Convinced That Our Nation Can Achieve Permanent Health Only From Within On The Basis Of The Principle: The Common Interest Before Self-interest.
Party
Self
Principles
Thus Inwardly Armed With Confidence In God And The Unshakable Stupidity Of The Voting Citizenry, The Politicians Can Begin The Fight For The 'remaking' Of The Reich As They Call It.
Religious
Fighting
Catholic Religion
Nationalist Socialist Germany Wants Peace Because Of Its Fundamental Convictions. And It Wants Peace Also Owing To The Realization Of The Simple Primitive Fact That No War Would Be Likely Essentially To Alter The Distress In Europe. The Principal Effect Of Every War Is To Destroy The Flower Of The Nation. Germany Needs Peace And Desires Peace!
War
Flower
Simple
...the Existence And Increase Of Our Race And Nation, The Sustenance Of Its Children And The Purity Of Its Blood, The Freedom And Independence Of The Fatherland, And The Nation's Ability To Fulfill The Mission Appointed To It By The Creator Of The Universe.
Children
War
Race
We, As Aryans, Can Conceive Of The State Only As The Living Organism Of A Nationality Which Not Only Assures The Preservation Of Its Nationality, But By The Development Of Its Spiritual And Ideal Abilities Leads It To The Highest Freedom.
Spiritual
Development
States
Germany Has Solemnly Recognized And Guaranteed France Her Frontiers As Determined After The Saar Plebiscite... We Thereby Finally Renounced All Claims To Alsace-lorraine, A Land For Which We Have Fought Two Great Wars.
War
Land
Two
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
This Game Is Repeated Again And Again, And In It The Role Of The So-called 'german Princes' Is Just As Miserable As That Of The Jews Themselves. These Lords Were Really God's Punishment For Their Beloved Peoples And Find Their Parallels Only In The Various Ministers Of The Present Time.
Punishment
Games
Roles
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
I Will Never Allow Anyone To Divide This People Once More Into Religious Camps, Each Fighting The Other
Religious
Military
Fighting
Just As The World Cannot Live On Wars, So People Cannot On Revolutions
Military
War
People
Then We'll Work A Hundred Years Without Physics And Chemistry.
Hard Work
Science
Years
It Is Eastwards, Only And Always Eastwards, That The Veins Of Our Race Must Expand. It Is The Direction Which Nature Herself Has Decreed For The Expansion Of The German Peoples.
Race
Expansion
Veins
A Woman Must Be A Cute, Cuddly, Naive Little Thing - Tender, Sweet, And Stupid.
Cute
Sweet
Stupid
The Unity Of A Nation's Spirit And Will Are Worth Far More Than The Freedom Of The Spirit And Will Of An Individual; And That The Higher Interests Involved In The Life Of The Whole Must Here Set The Limits And Lay Down The Duties Of The Interests Of The Individual.
Unity
Limits
Spirit
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
Particularly The Broad Masses Of The People Can Be Moved Only By The Power Of Speech.
People
Evil
Speech
Once Again The Songs Of The Fatherland Roared To The Heavens Along The Endless Marching Columns, And For The Last Time The Lord's Grace Smiled On His Ungrateful Children.
Song
Religious
Children
The Wage Of A People Has Meaning Only When It Arises From Production. Every Increase In Production Should Benefit The Whole People And Raise The People's Standards Of Living.
People
Benefits
Increase
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
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
When Our Party Had Only Seven Men, It Already Had Two Principles. First, It Wanted To Be A Party With A True Ideology. And Second, It Wanted To Be The One And Only Power In Germany.
Party
Men
Two
A Single Blow Must Destroy The Enemy... Without Regard Of Losses... A Gigantic All-destroying Blow.
Military
Loss
Blow
Being Daily Better Informed About Their Knowledge Than My Adversaries Themselves, I Argued Till Finally One Day They Applied The One Means That Wins The Easiest Victory Over Reason: Terror And Force.
Mean
Winning
Victory
There Arc No Such Things As Desperate Situations. Only Desperate Men.
Men
Desperate Situations
Arcs
Gold Is Not Necessary. I Have No Interest In Gold. We'll Build A Solid State, Without An Ounce Of Gold Behind It. Anyone Who Sells Above The Set Prices, Let Him Be Marched Off To A Concentration. That's The Bastion Of Money.
Gold
States
Concentration
Our German Language Has A Word Which In A Magnificent Way Denotes Conduct Based On This Spirit: Doing One's Duty [pflichterfüllung]-which Means Serving The Community Instead Of Contenting Oneself. We Have A Word For The Basic Disposition Which Underlies Conduct Of This Kind In Contrast To Egoism And Selfishness-idealism. By 'idealism' We Mean Only The Ability Of The Individual To Sacrifice Himself For The Whole, For His Fellow Men.
Mean
Sacrifice
Men
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
Tell A Lie Loud Enough And Long Enough And People Will Believe It.
Truth
Freedom
Lying
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
The Primitive Simplicity Of Their Minds Renders Them A More Easy Prey To A Big Lie Than A Small One.
Lying
Evil
Simplicity
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
The Great Masses Of The People Will More Easily Fall Victims To A Big Lie Than To A Small One.
Lying
Fall
Thinking
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
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
Anyone Who Sees And Paints A Sky Green And Fields Blue Ought To Be Sterilized.
Freedom
Blue
Sky
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
Neither I Nor Anyone Else In Germany Would Even Consider Placing Any "conditions" On Our Possible Return To The League Of Nations. Whether Or Not We Return To This Body Depends Exclusively Upon Whether We Can Belong To It As A Completely Equal Nation. This Is Not A "condition," But A Matter Of Course.
League
Body
Matter
As Soon As The Theoretician Attempts To Take Account Of So-called 'utility' And 'reality' Instead Of Absolute Truth, His Work Will Cease To Be A Polar Star Of Seeking Humanity And Instead Will Become A Prescription For Everyday Life.
Stars
Reality
Humanity
Neutrals And Lukewarms Do Not Make History.
The Receptivity Of The Masses Is Very Limited, Their Intelligence Is Small, But Their Power Of Forgetting Is Enormous. In Consequence Of These Facts, All Effective Propaganda Must Be Limited To A Very Few Points And Must Harp On These In Slogans Until The Last Member Of The Public Understands What You Want Him To Understand By Your Slogan.
Mein Kampf
Want
Lasts
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
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
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
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
If We Had These Rockets In 1939, We Should Never Have Had This War.
War
Air Power
Rockets
The World Is Not For Cowardly Peoples.
World
Cowardly
The Very First Essential For Success Is A Perpetually Constant And Regular Employment Of Violence.
Aquariums
Evil
Essentials
German Equality Of Rights Is The Prerequisite For Any Participation On Germany's Part In International Conventions And Agreements.
Rights
Agreement
Germany
I May Add That We Have More Than Once Stated Our Willingness To Conclude Nonaggression Pacts With The States Neighboring Our Own!
Add
May
States
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
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
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
Germany Neither Intends Nor Wishes To Interfere In The Internal Affair Of Austria, To Annex Austria, Or To Conclude An Anschluss
War
Wish
Germany
I Will Employ My Strength For The Welfare Of The German People, Protect The Constitution And Laws Of The German People, Conscientiously Discharge The Duties Imposed On Me, And Conduct My Affairs Of Office Impartially And With Justice To Everyone.
Law
People
Justice
Humanitarianism Is The Expression Of Stupidity And Cowardice.
Stupid
Expression
Humanitarian
What Is Necessary Is To Teach Each Class And Profession The Importance Of The Others. All Together Form One Mighty Body; Labourer, Peasant, And Professional Man.
Men
Class
Together
The Sportive, Knightly Battle Awakens The Best Human Characteristics. It Doesn't Separate, But Unites The Combatants In Understanding And Respect. He Also Helps To Connect The Countries In The Spirit Of Peace. That's Why The Olympic Flame Should Never Die.
Country
Flames
Understanding
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
In A War The Last Thing The English Know Is How To Practice Fair Play.
War
Practice
Play
I Follow My Course With The Precision And Security Of A Sleepwalker.
Precision
Courses
Security
For I Must Not Measure The Speech Of A Statesman To His People By The Impression Which It Leaves In A University Professor, But By The Effect It Exerts On The People. And This Alone Gives The Standard For The Speaker's Genius.
University Professors
Media
People
People Are More Likely To Believe A Big Lie Than A Small One.
Lying
Believe
People
The Jew Almost Never Marries A Christian Woman; It Is The Christian Who Marries A Jewess.
Christian
Christian Women
Jew
We Must, Therefore, Coolly And Objectively Adopt The Standpoint That It Can Certainly Not Be The Intention Of Heaven To Give One People Fifty Times As Much Land And Soil In This World As Another.
Land
People
Giving
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
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

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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.


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


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


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5.1. Overusing Quotes

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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.


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


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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


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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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