“If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.”
“Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.”
“The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.”
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”
“Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.”
“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.”
“Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
“Strength lies not in defense, but in attack.”
“Words build bridges into unexplored regions.”
“He who would live must fight. He who does not wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.”
“Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.”
“The man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or eyes.”
“The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.”
“Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.”
“Great liars are also great magicians.”
“The art of leadership consists of consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.”
“Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of a crowd.”
“The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.”
“It is not truth that matters, but victory.”
“The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.”
“Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights. I need revolutionaries.”
“The struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.”
“Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.”
“The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”
“As in everything, nature knows no commandment, but only an imperative need.”
“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.”
“When diplomacy ends, war begins.”
“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”
“Those who have no understanding of the political world around them have no right to criticize or complain.”
“The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.”
“The people in the mass are like an animal that obeys instinct; they follow the strongest leader.”
“A great state does not owe its power to wealth but to the character of its people.”
“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around.”
“The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.”
“All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.”
“I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.”
“A strong man is strongest alone.”
“What luck for rulers that men do not think.”
“A movement that fails to fight for victory is not worthy of existence.”
“A man does not die for something which he himself does not believe in.”
“History will judge us according to whether we have been successful in performing the task that life demands of us.”
“Obstacles exist only to be surmounted.”
“He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.”
“The world is not for cowardly nations.”
“No one is more enslaved than the one who believes he is free without being so.”
“Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.”
“I am convinced that nothing will defeat the people who hold onto their faith with determination and endurance.”
“A powerful leader does not work to create followers; he works to create more leaders.”
“To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.”