“I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.”

In a few days, newspapers can make a trivial incident in itself a dangerous issue that shakes the state, and it can also bring vital issues to the fore into oblivion, so that the public will soon forget them.

Be proud of your people when you don’t have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

I respected my father, but I loved my mother.

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.

Why nationalize industry when you can nationalize the people?

I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force.

Is it not a shame to leave the capabilities of a nation at the mercy of citizens who dispose of these capabilities lightly and shamelessly, as if they were playing cards.

Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

God’s and beasts, that is what our world is made of.

Great liars are also great magicians.

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate – namely, that theory that all men are created equal.