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| 1. | 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. |
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| 2. | Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless. |
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| 3. | Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized. |
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| 4. | As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice. |
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| 5. | As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid. |
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| 6. | 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. |
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| 7. | Chamberlain seemed such a nice old gentleman that I thought I would give him my autograph. |
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| 8. | Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. |
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| 9. | Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries. |
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| 10. | Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all. |
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| 11. | Great liars are also great magicians. |
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| 12. | Hate is more lasting than dislike. |
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| 13. | He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future. |
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| 14. | 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. |
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| 15. | How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. |
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| 16. | How fortunate for leaders that men do not think. |
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| 17. | Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice. |
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| 18. | I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator. |
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| 19. | I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature. |
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| 20. | I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker. |
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| 21. | I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few. |
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| 22. | If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution. |
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| 23. | If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. |
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| 24. | It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge. |
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| 25. | It is not truth that matters, but victory. |
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| 26. | Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. |
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| 27. | Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace. |
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| 28. | Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election. |
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| 29. | Strength lies not in defence but in attack. |
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| 30. | Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong. |
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| 31. | 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. |
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| 32. | The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force. |
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| 33. | The day of individual happiness has passed. |
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| 34. | The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others. |
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| 35. | The great mass of people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one. |
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| 36. | The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. |
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| 37. | The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it. |
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| 38. | The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category. |
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| 39. | The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence. |
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| 40. | The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. |
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| 41. | Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live. |
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| 42. | Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. |
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| 43. | What good fortune for governments that the people do not think. |
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| 44. | What luck for rulers, that men do not think. |
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| 45. | What luck for the rulers that men do not think. |
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| 46. | Who says I am not under the special protection of God? |
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| 47. | Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos. |
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| 48. | Words build bridges into unexplored regions. |
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