“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.”
“As soon as by one’s own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one’s own right is laid.”
“Great liars are also great magicians.”
“How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.”
“Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.”
“I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.”
“I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.”
“It is not truth that matters but victory.”
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”
“Only force rules. Force is the first law.”
“Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.”
“Sooner will a camel pass through a needle’s eye than a great man be ‘discovered’ by an election.”
“Strength lies not in defence but in attack.”
“Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.”
“The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.”
“The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.”
“The day of individual happiness has passed.”
“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.”
“The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.”
“The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.”
“The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.”
“The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.”
“Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.”
“Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.”
“Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.”
“What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.”
“When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side”, I calmly say, “Your child belongs to us already... What are you ? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.””
The doctrine and ethos of Nazism is present in our lives in Britain. Once again we are surrounded by ‘whistleblowers’ whose actions are encouraged by the state. The denial of social and moral accountability permits the ‘bullies’ free reign.
No more so at my school where it is dangerous to say anything. Your words and actions are distorted and reported.
Jane Jameson (née Watts)
