Top 684 Quotes & Sayings by Adolf Hitler

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then assuming the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. During his dictatorship, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, the genocide of about six million Jews and millions of other victims.

A man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no ears or no eyes.
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.
If you dont like a Rule... Just Follow it.. Reach on the Top.. and Change the Rule — © Adolf Hitler
If you dont like a Rule... Just Follow it.. Reach on the Top.. and Change the Rule
Life is like a game, there could be many players. If you don't play with them, they'll play with you.
Cruelty impresses, people want to be afraid of something. They want someone to whom they can submit with a shudder, the masses need that. They need something to dreed.
It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.
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.
Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
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 leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.
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.
To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future. — © Adolf Hitler
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
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.
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.
Brutality creates respect.
I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?
What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.
The truth is the best propaganda.
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.
What luck, for governments, that the people are stupid!
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.
Life does not forgive weakness.
A woman must be a cute, cuddly, naive little thing - tender, sweet, and stupid.
I'll put an end to the idea that a woman's body belongs to her... Nazi ideals demand that the practice of abortion shall be exterminated with a strong hand.
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
It is better to make a mistake than to do nothing.
Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.
National Socialism will use its own revolution for establishing of a new world order.
All propaganda must be confined to a few bare necessities and then must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas . . . Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea upon the memory of a crowd.
When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You, But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow Doesn't Follow You.
Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms.
National socialism is the determination to create a new man. There will no longer exist any individual arbitrary will, nor realms in which the individual belongs to himself. The time of happiness as a private matter is over.
What we suffer from today is an excess of education. — © Adolf Hitler
What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
Society's needs come before the individuals needs
A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.
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.
Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.
The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.
Let me control the textbooks, and I will control the state.
We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.
I am sure that the Japanese, the Chinese and the peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France, in spite of the fact that we are related by blood (...)
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain! — © Adolf Hitler
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior... I am fighting for the work of the Lord.
If the lie is large enough, everyone will believe it.
When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already...What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."
To attain our aim we should stop at nothing even if we must join forces with the devil.
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment. I have never regarded the Chinese or the Japanese as being inferior to ourselves. They belong to ancient civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is superior to our own. They have the right to be proud of their past, just as we have the right to be proud of the civilization to which we belong. Indeed, I believe the more steadfast the Chinese and the Japanese remain in their pride of race, the easier I shall find it to get on with them.
Tell a lie loud enough and long enough and people will believe it.
It is not truth that matters, but victory.
You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?
The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency.
WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?
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