Noxious Quotations

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

Whatever goal man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality

We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.

Man has become great through struggle.

Only force rules. Force is the first law.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

Life does not forgive weakness.

Our strength consists in our speed and in our brutality. Genghis Khan led millions of women and children to slaughter, with premeditation and a happy heart. History sees in him solely the founder of a state. It is a matter of indifference to me what a weak western European civilization will say about me. I have issued the command, and I will have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death's-head formation in readiness, for the present only in the East, with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space (Lebensraum) which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?

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

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.

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel.

Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist--und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik. "The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic." (rough translation)

One cannot expect to make an omelette without breaking eggs.