“The war made possible for us the solution of a whole series of problems that could never have been solved in normal times.”

Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.

If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.

What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place.

At night I sit in my chamber and read the bible. Far in the distance roars the sea. Then I lie down and think for a long time about the calm and pale man from Nazareth.

In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!

The masses need something that will give them a thrill of horror.

The modern man is necessarily a seeker of God, maybe a Man of Christ.

Devotion, fervor, longing! Those are my pillars. We have to be the bridge to the future.

I believe in God. When everything collapses, we grip the last hold, we look from the secure haven how the godless society of the old, holy Europe falls apart. May the game begin.

This is the secret of propaganda: Those who are to be persuaded by it should be completely immersed in the ideas of the propaganda, without ever noticing that they are being immersed in it.

Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good. The new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.

Our starting point is not the individual: We do not subscribe to the view that one should feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, or clothe the naked. Our objectives are different: We must have a healthy people in order to prevail in the world.

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

I think it’s important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

I’m just trying to get back to normal life.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?

It may be normal, darling; but I’d rather be natural.

Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.