Quotes from Adolf Hitler

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

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

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

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.

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

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.

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

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

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

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno.

...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).

We need free men who feel and know that God is in themselves

I myself was and still am a child of the people. It was not for the capitalists that I undertook this struggle; it was for the German working man that I took my stand.

...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.

The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature. Taken to its logical extreme, Christianity would mean the systematic cultivation of the human failure.

I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

It's possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past.

If I made peace with Russia today, I'd only attack her again tomorrow. I just couldn't help myself.