Quotes About Power

For us there are only two possibilities: either we remain German or we come under the thumb of the Jews. This latter must not occur; even if we are small, we are a force. A well organised group can conquer a strong enemy. If you stick close together and keep bringing in new people, we will be victorious over the Jews.

For us there are only two possibilities: either we remain German or we come under the thumb of the Jews. This latter must not occur; even if we are small, we are a force. A well organised group can conquer a strong enemy. If you stick close together and keep bringing in new people, we will be victorious over the Jews. November 9, 1921 in München

At first I was quite surprised when I realized how little time was necessary for this great evil power within the state to produce a certain belief among the public. In doing so, the genuine will and convictions of the public were often completely misconstrued. It took the press only a few days to transform some ridiculously trivial matter into an issue of national importance-while vital problems were completely ignored or hidden away from public view.

Unicamente un huracan de pasiones ardientes puede cambiar el destino de los pueblos, mas despertar pasion es solo atributo de quien en si mismo siente el fuego pasional. Que cada escritor quede junto a su tintero ocupado de teorias, si su saber y su talento le bastan para eso, que para Fuhrer no nacio, ni fue elegido.

Se uma doutrina que encerrasse mais inveracidade ao lado de idêntica brutalidade na propaganda, fosse oposta a social-democracia, triunfaria do mesmo modo, por mais áspera que fosse a luta.

He aquí por qué esta forma de democracia llegó a convertirse también en el instrumento de aquella raza cuyos íntimos propósitos, ahora y siempre, temerán mostrarse a la luz del día. Sólo el judío puede ensalzar una institución que es sucia y falaz como él mismo.

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

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.

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

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

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

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

The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.

Brutality creates respect.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.

In the age of slaves, the freeman had still outnumbered them, and now, in the "age of freedom", for the first time liberty had fled from the majority. Genius, statecraft, the very power of leadership having become suspect in a world where the one essential criterion - mediocrity - gives us the comfortable assurance that no leader shall possess any qualities whatsoever above our own immediate comprehension, man has made sure that no man shall be free.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

In the subtle tyranny of that moment beat the pulse of Cesar's neighborhood—the bid for attention, the undercurrent of hostility for so many small needs ignored and unmet, the pleasure of holding power, camouflaged in teasing, the rush of love.

And it conferred power. The presentee was placed under an obligation to the presenter, and once she had been presented she magically metamorphosed into a presenter herself, able to pass on the gift to others in some curious apostolic succession.

in contrast to Europe, where between 1894 and 1914 five heads of state, three prime ministers, and one president were assassinated.

On a typical day, the King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Archtreasurer and Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, didn't leave his bedroom until around noon.

As far as Queen Caroline was concerned, this was another example of Frederick's treachery, a deliberate attempt to prevent Frederick's younger brother William, her favourite, from inheriting the throne.