Adolf Hitler

Nazi dictator, WWII

Modern influential 57 sayings

Sayings by Adolf Hitler

What we have to fight for is the security of the existence and reproduction of our race and our people, the sustenance of our children and the purity of our blood, the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator of the universe.

1925 — Mein Kampf
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The man who has no sense of history is like a man who has no eyes or ears.

1941 — Table Talk
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It is not by speeches and majority resolutions that the great questions of the day are decided—that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849—but by iron and blood.

1925 — Altered quote from Bismarck in Mein Kampf
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Propaganda attempts to force a doctrine upon the whole people. It works on the general public from the standpoint of an idea and makes them ripe for the victory of this idea.

1925 — Mein Kampf
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The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, because if he does, he sacrifices all of his own strength. If a people wants to live, it must fight for its existence, and if it does not fight, it is lost.

1925 — Mein Kampf
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All great movements are popular movements, volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotional sentiments, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the word hurled among the masses.

1925 — Mein Kampf
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The folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration of an institution which is called upon to produce images of the Lord and not monstrosities halfway between man and ape.

1925 — Mein Kampf
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The Jew is a parasite. He is a racial tuberculosis of the peoples.

1925 — Mein Kampf
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The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous.

1925 — Mein Kampf
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Only force rules. Force is the first law.

1922 (approx) — Reported in 'Hitler' by Joachim C. Fest
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The function of propaganda is, for example, not to weigh the rights of different people, but to emphasize exclusively the one right which it has set out to argue for.

1925 — Mein Kampf
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The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

1925 — Mein Kampf
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Anyone who wants to understand National Socialism must first and foremost understand that it is a racist doctrine.

1933 — Speech in Nuremberg
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The best way to control a people is to control their minds.

Unknown — Attributed, but precise direct source hard to verify. Common paraphrase of his ideas.
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The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.

1934 — Speech to the Reichstag
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The stronger race will drive out the weaker, for the desire for life in its ultimate form will burst all the absurd chains of so-called humanity of the individual and make way for the humanity of the nation.

1925 — Mein Kampf
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Anyone who is not physically and mentally healthy should not reproduce.

1925 — Mein Kampf
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The folkish State has to direct its entire education primarily not at inoculating mere knowledge, but at the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies.

1925 — Mein Kampf
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The individual is nothing. The Volk is everything.

1930s — Common Nazi slogan, attributed to Hitler in various speeches.
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Only by the successful and continuous application of force will the Jewish question be solved.

1922 — Speech in Munich
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