Adolf Hitler

Nazi dictator, WWII

Modern influential 57 sayings

Sayings by Adolf Hitler

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

1925 — From "Mein Kampf"
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

I would have killed all the Jews of the world, but I kept some to show the world why I killed them.

1945 — Alleged private conversation (disputed)
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

1933 — Speech in Munich
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human.

1925 — From "Mein Kampf"
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Unknown — Attributed in Nazi propaganda
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

The art of leadership consists of consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

1925 — From "Mein Kampf"
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator: By warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord’s work.

1936 — Speech in the Reichstag
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

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

1925 — From "Mein Kampf"
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.

1925 — From "Mein Kampf"
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

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

1925 — From "Mein Kampf"
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The Jewish spirit is immortal. The Jew is immortal. The Jew is the eternal spirit of negation.

1922 — Speech in Munich
Controversial Unverifiable

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

1925 — Mein Kampf
Controversial Unverifiable

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

1937 — Speech at the opening of the 'Great German Art Exhibition' in Munich
Controversial Unverifiable

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented.

1941 — Table Talk
Controversial Unverifiable

Only a part of the German people is willing to sacrifice itself. The others want to live.

1945 — Speech to his generals in the Reich Chancellery
Controversial Unverifiable

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subjugated races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjugated races to possess arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.

1941 — Table Talk
Controversial Unverifiable

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

1925 — Mein Kampf
Controversial Unverifiable

Man has discovered in nature the wonderful principle of selection and has applied it, though imperfectly, in the breeding of his cattle and dogs. But man himself is still subject to the laws of natural selection.

1925 — Mein Kampf
Controversial Unverifiable

The broad masses of a nation are not made up of professors and diplomats. They are born of the soil, simple in their understanding, and firm in their convictions.

1925 — Mein Kampf
Controversial Unverifiable

The very first essential for success is to be a restless, indefatigable agitator.

1925 — Mein Kampf
Controversial Unverifiable