Adolf Hitler

“If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”

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

“Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population.”

“The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.”

“لقد كان في وسعي أن أقضي على كل يهود العالم ولكني تركت بعضا منهم لتعرفوا لماذا كنت أبيدهم”

“The only preventative measure one can take is to live irregularly.”

“Words build bridges into unexplored regions.”

“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.”

“Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.”

“If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.”

“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.”

“Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.-- unsourced, suspected false quotation”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Kill, Destroy, Sack, Tell lie; how much you want after victory nobody asks why?-- uncited source”

“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”

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

“Only the Jew knew that by an able and persistent use of propaganda heaven itself can be presented to the people as if it were hell and, vice versa, the most miserable kind of life can be presented as if it were paradise. The Jew knew this and acted accordingly. But the German, or rather his Government, did not have the slightest suspicion of it. During the War the heaviest of penalties had to be paid for that ignorance.-- Mein Kampf, Chapter 10”

“I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty.”

“When diplomacy ends, War begins.”