“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.”

As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation’s goods.

To be a socialist means to let the ego serve the neighbour, to sacrifice the self for the whole. In its deepest sense socialism equals service. The individual refrains and the commonwealth demands.

The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.

Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.

It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

If we have power, we’ll never give it up again unless we’re carried out of our offices as corpses.

Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don’t have to prove that scientifically. It’s a fact.

We have had much to bear already. And still more will we have to bear. Let us thank God for being young.

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.

The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly – it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.

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.

Minds differ still more than faces.

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same.

You always become the thing you fight the most.

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.