Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually, they’ll believe.

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

When diplomacy ends, war begins.

To conquer a nation, first disarm the citizens.

Life doesn’t forgive weakness.

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.

A sound and energetic mind is only found in a sound and energetic body.

Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population.

His own fight for existence kills his sensibility for the misery of those who have been left behind.

Those who have no understanding of the political world around them have no right to criticise or complain.

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn’t wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

I respected my father. But I loved my mother.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.”