Kampf Quotations

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.

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

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

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.

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

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

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted to live at this time.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.

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

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

The majority can never replace the man

To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.

Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence...

But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.

The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.

Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward.

Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

The anti-Semitism of the new movement was based on religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.

...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study.

It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad masses of its adherents.

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated act of grace to be allowed to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim the sincerity of this conviction.

I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian- Social movement, especially in Lueger's time achieved a certain virtuosity on this instrument, to which it owed many of its success.

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

The grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down.

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

A man does not die for something which he himself does not believe in.

The Bible is to gays what Mein Kampf is to Jews.

Of course you can have an opinion about Islam without having read Qur'an. You don't have to read Mein Kampf to have an opinion about Nazism.